[OpenAFS] Volume "type" mapping to certain partitions

[Russ Allbery]

Jeff Blaine <jblaine@kickflop.net> writes:

> Are people still doing things like mapping user home directory volumes
> to certain partitions on certain servers, keeping track in a database,
> etc?

Yes.

> What does this buy, assuming all data served from storage comes from
> like hardware (speed, capacity, etc)?

Nothing.

We do this because that's *not* the case; we put some volume types on
slower servers with crappy storage.

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