If you do need them to handle the load, chances are pretty good that
you have more than 2 fileservers, and therefore the issue of making
a database server someone's office machine shouldn't come up (unless
all of your servers are people's workstations; I know of a couple of
sites that are forced to operate that way for political reasons).
Ok, so let me get this straight. I have a Sparc 20 and our lowest IP
server (running vl, pt, bu, and that other one, plus it's file server.
Then we have a Sparc 5 running the same. THen I have a Sparc 5 on my desk
(the machine in question). It would be a lightly used file server, and
also do all of the pt/vl/bu/ntp/whatever serving. Oh the KT too. That's
what I forgot.
> And yes, in an ideal world, desk workstations are clients while
> servers (with only admin logins) are purely dedicated to AFS
> database and file serving from a secured machine room.
So what I've gathered, you are saying that I should have a 3rd dedicated
AFS database server, that does only a small amount of file serving, or that
it would be ok to use my Sparc 5 on my desk for it. I use it a lot, and
it's running in openwin 99% of the time. It would be the 3rd AFS database
server, beyond the 2 dedicated secured machines doing AFS database and file
serving.
Peter
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