[OpenAFS] Newbie questions

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Renato Arruda wrote:

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

The interesting thing is probably moving it and.or backing it up.

> > 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...

You can't access cache data if you lose contact with servers. Disconnected
AFS would potentially rectify this.