[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Support for huge (really huge!) cell

Mike Shaddock shaddock@duke.edu
Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:29:17 -0500


Ken Hornstein wrote:
>>On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Ian Delahorne wrote:
>>
>>>>We plan to install a read-only AFS-DB-Server in every school too (makes
>>>>at least 100). Will Ubik scale to this number of Servers?
>>>
>>>Ubik doesn't scale beyond three servers.
>>
>>Oh. There are (or at least were) cells with 5 Servers around.
> 
> I'm not sure where Ian got that number from; I personally don't believe
> it, but I'd be glad to see proof that I'm wrong.

In Transarc AFS 3.4 (and earlier, I think), you could have five servers. 
  We were running it that way where I was working then.