[OpenAFS] Maximum volume size (again)

Ken Hornstein kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Wed, 17 May 2006 13:13:16 -0400


>Has anyone done any comparisons to determine if the time to move a  
>single large volume is significantly different than the time to move the  
>equivalent files in smaller volumes? I'm doing some testing, and may  
>give this a shot.

I think when I did some extremely rough measurments of this, there was
not much (if any) penalty for doing volume splitting; almost all of the
time was in vnode operations and actual data moving.

--Ken