[OpenAFS-devel] Size limitations in OpenAFS?

[Thomas Vincent - 409-974-3678]

The only problem is you have to license MR-AFS from the Pitsburg
SuperComputing center. (Forgive me if that is not the correct title
of the organization.) According to a previous poster, upper managment at
the center is afraid of releasing it and having it productized.
I believe a previous poster commented that the 8Gb volume size was only a
recommended limitation, and that they had gone well beyond it.

My opinion, not my companies:
IMHO, A agency that is funded by tax dollars is afraid of contributing
the code back to the community, country, and world that it is supposed
to advance. All they need to do is have the license say any modifications
to the code should be contributed back to the center. Maybe a LGPL type of license.
Again, to emphasize, my opinon only here.

Cheers,
Thomas Vincent

On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Hartmut Reuter wrote:

> Kangesh Gunaseelan wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I found the following size limitations in the AFS 3.6 release notes:
> > Maximum file size - 2 GB
> > Maximum disk cache size - 1 GB
> > Maximum volume size - 8 GB
> > Number of replication server per volume - 12
> >
> > Do these limits apply to OpenAFS sources as well or has
> > anyone enhanced the sources to get rid of the limitations?
>
> Once again (I posted this information already several times) you could
> use MR-AFS instead. There you don't have the file-size and volume-size
> limitations on the server side and we have a beta version for large file
> support on the client side running presently only rs_aix42, however.
>
> Hartmut
>
> >
> > I am considering using AFS for streaming media files and
> > need to really get rid of the above size limitations.
> > I am yet to familiarize with the source files but would be
> > glad to hear from any one that has looked at the sources
> > regarding what is involved in changing these limits.
> >
> > By the way, is there any performance benchmarks on
> > how AFS performs with respect to very large files?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kangesh
> >
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