-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lars Schimmer wrote: > HI! > > Just out of interest: > which site (beside our cell) is using OpenAFS as filestore for Windows > Profile and customers working on this?
Good to see we are not the only cell working with profiles in AFS space. We use 1.4.6 linux servers, Win XP SP2 and at least 1.5.27 OpenAFS Windows clients. So far it works mostly. Biggest problems: 1. slowness - Users reports of LONG loading times for 400-1000 MB roaming profiles, up to 20 minutes 2. as in computergraphic, we handle 10-400 MB models with our programs. Getting this via the fileserver at 5-6 MB/sec is kinda slow. The cache on AFS is written as a single file, I would prefer a partition as it can't be defragmented 3. reliability - some days windows hit a error while saving the profile and no "readable" info could be found - I assume mostly unicode problems 4. the context menu - nearly all workstations has it disabled as it "send the explorer into a timeout" - from 1.5.x on til now for the most active win users the context menu is a problem - right click on a file OUT of AFS space keep the system freeze for ~60 sec til the context menu appears. For files in AFS space it appears direct. Til yet I haven't found any solution why it freezes, as in all my test accounts it just doesn't appear, even on workstations on which the other users have that problem 5. Office - haven't tested with latest OpenAFS, but nearly 1 year ago one workstation had big problems with office files in AFS space - read/write a file to AFS freezed the machine for 1-2 minutes, even with debugging on we could only say "openAFS works correct". We only got 5-10 people working every day with windows roaming profile in AFS space, maybe this list seems to be harsh, but thats just collected issues/probs/wishes from 2 years practise. Some can't be solved, e.g. speed of network. I just want to know if these problems are problems to the others or if these are not known so far... (and yes, I know some parts are solved IF the new binding of OpenAFS as a native Windows drive is ready) MfG, Lars Schimmer - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------- TU Graz, Institut für ComputerGraphik & WissensVisualisierung Tel: +43 316 873-5405 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +43 316 873-5402 PGP-Key-ID: 0x4A9B1723 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHruMbmWhuE0qbFyMRAiM/AJ0VfJn54lCk0xIxZVkNdHH27+qf2wCfVCpt 5ZEk3uyiCOOLZ37cO4CCNtI= =sJQf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info