[OpenAFS-devel] datagrams really arent big enough?

[Derrick J Brashear]

--On Wednesday, November 08, 2000 11:14:10 AM -0500 Chas Williams 
<chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:

> 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.

I don't know if John T Kohl is reading, but I was under the impression that 
his "vicegrips" client was basically that. Such a thing wouldn't be hard in 
any case.

-D