[OpenAFS-devel] datagrams really arent big enough?

[Chas Williams]

In message <986892704.973699640@skittlebrau.trafford.dementia.org>,Derrick J Br
ashear writes:
>> possible benefit to bypassing the cache completely for large files (i.e.
>
>Then you've either made a decision for too many people, or you need an 
>interface to pick and choose what files will be cached and what won't. The 
>problem with allowing per-file selection of this is you've then made end 
>users "know" they're using AFS and deal with it if the default is not what 
>they want. I'm not sure that's a good thing.

i am not reccomending 'cache bypass' for everyone.  if we ever get the mods
i certainly wouldnt ask for it to be placed into openafs.  its just
something we thought about doing.  getting >1G files from afs is very very
slow through the cache manager.  possibly something like 'afs ftp'
might be an easier solution though.  i.e. a direct read from the fileserver
at the userspace level.