Fw: [OpenAFS] some questions on OPENAFS

[Derek Atkins]

"Sven Oehme" <oehmes@de.ibm.com> writes:

> okay , we also have actually some terabyte of data , but is there a limit 
> ? we really want more than 1 Petabyte !!

I know of no limit on the amount of data in a cell.  There are limits
on the number of copies of volumes and the number of partitions per
server, but none on the number of servers (as far as I know).

> so this means we can handle 4 Milliards of user ?  has anyone a 

Actually you can handle (theoretically) up to 2 billion users (and 2 billion
groups).

> installation greater that 100.000 Users within 1 Cell ??

I think UMich does.  Not a problem.

-derek

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