[OpenAFS] Number of volume limits

[Craig_Everhart@transarc.com]

Excerpts from mail: 13-Aug-01 Re: [OpenAFS] Number of vol.. Jeffrey
Hutzelman@cmu.ed (1133*)

> > Which is the limit on the number of volume created in one cell ?
> > Is there a limits on the number of volume by vicep ?

> There is no practical limit on the number of volumes in one cell.  The
> volume ID counter will run out at 4294967295, but to reach that, you'd
> have to create one volume per second, every second, for nearly 120 years.

There's perhaps no practical limit, but the lower limit is probably
imposed by the size of the VLDB entries in the VLDB, knowing that the
VLDB itself is limited to 2G bytes.

		Craig