[OpenAFS] OpenAFS speed - some benchmarks

[Andrei Maslennikov]

A propos, we have recently tested different protocols on the latest
commodity hardware. At this time, we were mainly interested in the file
system performance for *large* files (used 1.9GB files).

Current results may be found at the following URL:
 
   http://afs.caspur.it/slab/CASPUR-Slab-0603.pdf

(Skip to page range 22-25, other tests have nothing to do with AFS).

I would love to be able to report the better numbers, but AFS 
performance does not look well for large files (and we used a 
large cache on the ramdisk, and played with chunksizes and/or 
fileserver params...). NFS is simply doing 2.5 times faster..

Andrei.