[OpenAFS] Cache size question

[Todd M. Lewis]

Tino Schwarze wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 04:32:31PM -0700, John Gruenenfelder wrote:
> 
> 
>>Most of our files are of typical sizes, very small up to a few megabytes.
>>However, we do work with a large amount of astronomical data an on occasion
>>these files can be very huge, say 2 or 3 GB.
>>
>>Does the AFS cache have to be large enough to hold the biggest file you will
>>ever use, or can it be much smaller (about 1GB) and just grab parts of those
>>really big files?
> 
> 
> The files are cached in chunks (and you can tune the chunk size). The
> only thing about files bigger than the cache is that AFAIK things get
> pretty slow if you write such a file.

...especially if you ever hope to see that 3rd GB again.  You're stuck 
with filesizes <2GB IIRC.

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