[OpenAFS] About AFS performance over WAN

Dale Ghent daleg@umbc.edu
Wed, 3 Dec 2008 23:10:33 -0500


On Dec 1, 2008, at 4:24 AM, Rainer Toebbicke wrote:

> With unlimited development resources AFS would deserve a better  
> suited protocol than TCP, in practice with a little more realism my  
> gut feeling is that at least some more brain should be devoted to  
> improving plain RX rather than betting on another horse. I  
> occasionally tried over the past years, with some improvements that  
> Hartmut tested as well, but my brain being what it is and the matter  
> relatively complicated results remain modest.

Given this, what are your thoughts on STCP and whether it would be  
useful in this arena?

/dale