[OpenAFS] Speed difference between OpenAFS 1.4.x on Debian and CentOS

Christopher D. Clausen cclausen@acm.org
Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:53:32 -0500


Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@secure-endpoints.com> wrote:
> Christopher D. Clausen wrote:
>> I think the better question is why CentOS has it _OFF_ by default.
>> Packages should "fail safe" by being in the safest operating mode by
>> default.
>
> Agreed but then you get the folks who install AFS and perform
> some tests and say "NFS is 20 times faster, AFS sucks."

Anyone performing such tests should know about and be able to issue a fs 
setcrypt off command before running benchmarks.  What if OpenSSH left 
encryption turned off by default so people could benchmark it against 
FTP?

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