[OpenAFS] Is OpenAFS appropriate?

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:07:45 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Dave McMurtrie <dgm+@pitt.edu> writes:
> > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
> >> I don't know the size of your company, but a single person can handle
> >> this part-time for a small company.
>
> > For an entire university, we essentially have a single person managing
> > our cell.
>
> I think we've got less than that, unless you count general account
> management (which I wouldn't; we'd have to do that anyway).  Something
> around 50% of an FTE to manage 4TB of disk space in 53,606 read/write
> volumes.

CMU thinks they're spending less of me than that on OpenAFS maintenance,
as to administering it, uh, we do that occasionally.