[OpenAFS] Using volumes for daemons

[Derek Atkins]

I wouldn't..  AFS really isn't designed for that usage model.

-derek

"Caskey L. Dickson" <caskey@technocage.com> writes:

> I'm curious as to whether you can use AFS volumes for the storage 
> locations of services like openldap, mysql and postgresql.  All three 
> use database files which are held open for long periods of time and 
> normally would require large amounts of local storage.
>
> I'm not looking for AFS to provide replication of the databases, just an 
> alternative to data being stored locally on quasi-stable disks.  We're 
> already moving 'home dir' type data to a set of AFS servers and would 
> like to leverage the pool of reliable, redundant disks we use for this, 
> for some of our services.
>
> If this is possible, are there any restrictions with regard to the local 
> cache size versus the largest file being accessed?  I understand the 
> files are stored/transferred in slices/chunks of 64KB or so, does this 
> mean that dirty chunks are sent back to the volume server similarly when 
> the cache fills up?  Even if the cache is, say 100M and the file is 1G?

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