just to clarify, we maintain service subscriber lists using PTS, and we do
have groups with close to 8000 members. however, i can't comment on
whether AFS can handle this "out of the box" or if we changed something
here at umich.
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On Thu, 15 Jan 1998 09:30:29 -0500, "Sarr Blumson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> 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 stil
l
> be an issue, but our (the University of Michigan) solution was to allow group
s
> 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 th
at
> aren't true any more usually helps get a response :-).
>
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