> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Jeff Horwit writes:
> 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.
>
Out of the box limit is 5,000 members. where a member is a unique
AFS id not a another protection group. We opened a defect back in
September to increase this value. Yep still waiting!!
> >
> > 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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> > Sarr Blumson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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Terry McCoy email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sr Systems Engineer
Office of Information Technologies
System Services
University of Notre Dame
