[OpenAFS] OpenAFS Newbie Questions

[Raymond]

As a newbie to AFS, I am unclear on much of AFS

I have a RH73 server and wish to replace the /home directory and mount wi=
th
 an AFS volume. Redhat will be reloaded soon with all partitions recreate=
d
 and formated with ext3 or reiserfs. The primary use of this machine will=
 be
 to share user data located on this machine. The /home partition is typic=
ally
 structured as /home/<org unit>/<user>/ with public, protected and privat=
e
 subdirectories. The clients are all Win2K machines spread across a conti=
nent
 via T1 and DS3 wan.

1) Is the vicepx partition where all the user (/home) data is stored. If =
so,
can I  create a /vicepa partition in lieu of the /home partition during R=
H73
installation? When creating a new user via console useradd or kde's kuser=
,
would the home directory be /vicepa/usr/<org unit>/<user>/ or
/afs/<cell>/usr/<org unit>/<user>/  ?

2) After perusing the list archives, it appears only ext2 is guaranteed t=
o
work with the client cache. Therefore, is it advisable to create a 100+ m=
eg
ext2 /usr/afs/cache  partition during RH73 installation?

3) I wish to replicate the /vicepa partition to a geographically remote
 machine for fault-tolerance. Is this easily achievable?

4) Is the OpenAFS Windoz client similar to the Transarc client outlined i=
n
 the Transarc documentation?

5) I currently utilize pam for all user application authentication to the
system. Does the RH73 RPM version of OpenAFS support this? Is Kerberos
implicitly utilized to create an encryption *hash" or should I wrap OpenA=
FS
file transfers with SSH2?

Thanks in advance.

Raymond

If this is a duplicate posting, I apologize as I have not seen the origin=
al=20
posted to the list.