[OpenAFS] Newbie questions

[Renato Arruda]

On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 14:29, Brian Akins wrote:
> Greetings,
> I'm an openAFS newbie.  I'm investigating a solution to provide
> read-only content to many clients (100's) and a read-only gold
> server(s). I have just begun to play with it and haven't found good
> answers to a few questions:
> 
> 1. Is the max volume size 8GB (this seems to be the case)?  Can a server
> serve many volumes, so that a fileserver serves 32 GB of data (for
> example)? Or is this a fileserver limit?
> 

I run a cell with a volume with 90gb in size w/o any problems.

> 2. What happens to a client if it looses network connectivity to all
> servers (file, database)?  Can it still use the data in its local cache?
> 

(iirc) i believe it uses it's cache, but it is far from optimal since if
you are editing a document when you do a fclose() it will hang there and
some other similar situations...

[]'s
Renato