Hi, On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 09:01:11AM -0400, Jesse W. Asher wrote: > > I ran across the below paragraph in an IBM document at > http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246657.pdf (page 7). When > talking about NFSv4, they said: > > * > NFS has evolved into a powerful enterprise file system that enables it to take > advantage of today's more powerful servers and storage. Earlier enterprise > file > systems such as AFS and DFS have architectural limitations that limit their > ability > to process large files and take advantage of the increased memory and > multiprocessor support available in modern servers.* > > > I know that AFS is used extensively at large companies like Intel and IBM. I > was wondering how true > the above really was??
AFS is able to handle large (> 2G) files. It is a configure option which is (at least in the openafs debian package) on by default. Regards, Frank _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
