[OpenAFS] Cache size question

[Tino Schwarze]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 04:32:31PM -0700, John Gruenenfelder wrote:

> Most of our files are of typical sizes, very small up to a few megabytes.
> However, we do work with a large amount of astronomical data an on occasion
> these files can be very huge, say 2 or 3 GB.
> 
> Does the AFS cache have to be large enough to hold the biggest file you will
> ever use, or can it be much smaller (about 1GB) and just grab parts of those
> really big files?

The files are cached in chunks (and you can tune the chunk size). The
only thing about files bigger than the cache is that AFAIK things get
pretty slow if you write such a file.

HTH! Tino.

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