[OpenAFS] PTS groups

[Derek Atkins]

Matthew Cocker <matt@cs.auckland.ac.nz> writes:

> We have ~10K groups of which 400 are over 1000 members. These large
> groups range from 1000 to ~50k. We have started looking at the groups
> in detail and can probably reduce the problem set down to about 200
> groups. The problem is some of these large groups are really useful
> such as everyone enrolled in an academic program (total and by level)
> etc.

Having 10k groups isn't a problem at all.  Having a group with 50k
members is probably an issue, but at that point I would start
questioning whether "system:authuser" isn't the right answer.

> In the end we will probably just break the groups up into subgroups
> and us the subgroups in acls until we have supergroups available.
>
> Thanks Matt

-derek

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