Fw: [OpenAFS] some questions on OPENAFS

[Tino Schwarze]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 09:40:23AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:

> > okay , we also have actually some terabyte of data , but is there a limit 
> > ? we really want more than 1 Petabyte !!
> 
> I know of no limit on the amount of data in a cell.  There are limits
> on the number of copies of volumes and the number of partitions per
> server, but none on the number of servers (as far as I know).
> 
> > so this means we can handle 4 Milliards of user ?  has anyone a 
> 
> Actually you can handle (theoretically) up to 2 billion users (and 2 billion
> groups).

Billion / Milliard is a common misunderstanding. I'm sure, you are both
talking about 2^32 or about 4*10^9.

Bye, Tino.

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