[OpenAFS] AFS question

[Paul Blackburn]

Brent Graveland wrote:

 > Where would one find these AFS courses? Do they still exist from IBM 
or are
 > they from somebody else?

There was some discussion earlier here on the open-afs mailing list
about AFS courses. I understand that staff from Transarc are able
to provide training so long as there are enough people to make
it feasible. Transarc training is most excellent, don't miss it

>>I would choose the biggest partition size you can but take care
>>to keep the volumes you create below 8gb.
>>    
>>
>What reasons are there (technical, practical, or just traditional?) for keeping
>a volume under 8gb?  My largest volume is 60GB and other than the amount of time
>it would take to addsite or move it, it works fine.
>
Nice to know it works for you.

I was advised by Transarc to keep volumes below 8gb
as larger volumes were not supported in AFS 3.6 on Linux.
Do we have any documentation/specs from OpenAFS
which indicates larger volumes are OK also?

In general,  having smaller volumes means you can more
easily manage them: move them from one fileserver
to another, replicate, backup, restore, etc
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cheers
paul                            http://acm.org/~mpb