[OpenAFS] scalability

[Paul Blackburn]

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There are some pretty big AFS cells around. I know of one at 10 terabytes.

You only need 1 AFS administrator for a 100 gb cell, until (s)he goes on
holiday. ;-)

I would steer well clear of any "NT base solution" because of:
    a) cost
    b) security
    c) reliability

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cheers
paul                                   http://acm.org/~mpb

"Unix is the answer, but only if you phrase the question very carefully."
  --unknown

David Bear wrote:

> I'm wondering if anyone has any metrics or 'gut feeling' for how scalable
> AFS is on 2 sides.  Side one is technically, how many clients, how much
> space, etc.  Side 2 is administratively.  I'm interested in comparatives
> as well: ie how many sys admins does it take to manage 100gigs of AFS
> space  and 40000 users, versus some NT base solution.  What kind of
> incremental price points are there?  meaning, 1 afs sysadmin can handle x
> gigs and y users, 2 afs sysadmin can handle n*x gigs and m*y users -- etc,
> versus doing the same thing for an NT based network.
>
> Thanks for any input.
>
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> David Bear
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> ...the way is like water, going where nobody wants it to go
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paul                           http://acm.org/~mpb



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