[OpenAFS] OpenAFS Citrix & Windows 2000 client stability

[Leif Johansson]

Frank J. Cameron wrote:

> My experience is with the Transarc client on Citrix not OpenAFS; but 
> since Patch 2 the client has been stable and since Patch 3 its been a 
> rock.  Patch 3 also fixed some issues we had with Windows 2000 RAS 
> clients accessing AFS over the dial-up link ('afsdacl -set' is great 
> for laptops).

We also tried the transarc client but gave up before p3. Maybe we should 
give it another whirl.

>
> As for speed, well some of the MCSE's complained that AFS was slow so 
> I did some testing copying file sets (I lost the actual numbers, though):
>
> 'Small' from Server:   NetWare faster than AFS faster than NT, first run
>                                AFS faster than NetWare faster than NT, 
> subsequent runs (cache effect)
> 'Small' to Server:       NetWare faster than AFS faster than NT, all runs
> 'Large' from Server:  NetWare faster than AFS faster than NT, all runs
> 'Large' to Server:      NetWare faster than NT faster than AFS (by 
> small margin), all runs

Thanks! This is useful stuff.

            MVH leifj