In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Brian Buhrow writes:
> Hello AFS users. I'm wondering if anyone has experience with putting
>large numbers of users in a group. The manual for AFS 3.4 says that there
>is a theoretical limit of 5000 users per group because the pts command
>associated with the membership command can only display 5000 entries. Is
>this limit real? Will pts insert more than 5,000 users in a group as long
>as you don't try to display them? Could I put 13,000 users in a group?
>Does anyone have ideas for how to set up large groups that exceed this
>theoretical limit?
At one time there were concerns about whether very large groups could be
replicated within the time limits required by ubik. This may or may not still
be an issue, but our (the University of Michigan) solution was to allow groups
to be members of other groups, so that our very large groups could be broken
down into a number of smaller subgroups (possible to several levels). I'm
actually not sure whether Transarc has done this either, but saying things that
aren't true any more usually helps get a response :-).
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