[OpenAFS] openafs performance in an internet-scale traffic environment

[Russ Allbery]

Steve Simmons <scs@umich.edu> writes:

> The umich web servers serve almost all data out of AFS. They're our
> torture test of our AFS deployment. :-/  It works, as long as AFS works.

> BTW, the users consider this a great feature. They update the files, and
> the changes are instantly usable. Read-only volume replication  defeats
> that.

Yup, we do the same thing here, with the addition that specific groups
that can deal with it get replicated volumes and a tool to release them.
The homepage group, for instance, *loves* being able to stage and preview
changes (via a separate web server with access control that points to the
read/write volumes) and then release that content when they're ready.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>