[OpenAFS] Split Samba Server mess. How to do?

[pac]

   Hi,
 
    I'm new to the list. 
 
  First i'l like to say hi.
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  Second I have a situation I'd like some advice with.
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   We have a set of 4 servers A,B,C,D that have data which gets 
  smbmounted to a linux system. The reason A-D exist is that they found
  a single server running samba could not handle all the data. Getting
  hit by 50 windows users at a time would bring down a single server..
  Never mind that the smbmount point server is out of data and slow.
    
  I want to suggest a solution using OpenAFS that is going to be fast enough.
   Think i can reduce A-D to a single server or pair of servers?
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  Thirdly, what is the status of file replication, and what type of 
   data throughput can OpenAFS handle?
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  Lastly, is there a faq that describes what hardware/OS OpenAFS will work on?
  I didn't see this in the docs..
 
 Thanks,
 
 -Phil Carinhas
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