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

[John M. Lockard]

On 11/10/2004 11:29 AM, Mike Shaddock wrote:
 > 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. 

We were running 5 servers for a number of months.  Then decided
we wanted the file servers to only focus on file serving.  So,
yes, 5 servers will work.

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