[OpenAFS] Re[2]: OpenAFS Newbie Questions

[matt@njit.edu]

Raymond, 

Depending on your time frame you might want to set up a test cell before
inflicting AFS on your users.  AFS is a great solution for distributing
home directories and software, but it requires  careful planning so you
don't end up with a messy deployment.  

If your users are used to standard ufs type filesystem semantics, ie:
mode bits and file permissions, it might take some time (and dare i say
it "training") to get them used to tokens and directory ACLs... 

AFS is so much more than a simple network filesystem, If you are missing
some basic understanding of how AFS works, i would suggest reading over
the IBM/Transarc manuals -or-  the "Managing Afs: The Andrew File
System" book by Richard Campbell (isbn: 0138027293)

-Matt

Raymond wrote:
> 
> >> A volume is stored on a vicepx partition, and a vicepx partition may
> contain multiple volumes.  <<
> 
> Is /vicepx the *physical* location of the user data and /afs/<cell name>/  a
> symbolic / hierarchical representation of the raw data stored in vicepx?
> 
> If my understanding is accurate, if /afs/<cell name>/ becomes corrupt or
> destroyed, can /afs/<cell name>/ be recreated from /vicepx?
> 
> This is important as I will devote a hardware RAID5 array to the physical
> location of the user data.
> 
> Raymond
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