[OpenAFS] Commercial use of OpenAFS ?

Mike Fedyk mfedyk@matchmail.com
Tue, 07 Sep 2004 10:32:35 -0700


EC wrote:

>>>>>>>>"Derek" == Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU> writes:
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>>>Derek> There are some companies in New York that would claim
>>>Derek> emphatically "yes, it's stable enough".
>>>
>>>Well, one of those companies will say so, but with a few important
>>>caveats.
>>>
>>>Morgan Stanley's use of AFs does NOT include such large volumes, and
>>>in fact, we are deprecating the use of AFS for RW data on large scale,
>>>and encourging users to use NFS/SAN solutions instead.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>What problems have you been encountering?
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>>
>
>Linux Crash...
>Tests done on LFS 5.1.1 (2.4.27 kernel + libata patch, with or without
>grsecurity patch). I use a diskless client configuration, no swap, ~200MB
>for the system (total 2GB RAM), AFS cache is 25MB. I tried to move around a
>1,5GB file inside the afs directory. Never finished the move. AFS client /
>Linux hangs, and I have reboot the system.
>
What version of AFS on the various systems?