Hello AFS people, Does anyone out there use AFS as the storage medium for soundfiles? The objective here is to be able to stream several concurent channels of sound to and from the fileservers without interuptions (which will cause jagged voices) to and from the client application running on a NT workstation. The required bitrate per channel is around 1550 Kbit per second. The filesize vary between 10-500Mbytes The workstation will request data all the time during playback. The maximum number of channels squezed through a 100Mbit Full duplex Ethernet line is known to be around 33 channels read plus 15 channels write from several concurent simultanious clients to one Novell based server. Multiple concurent smooth flow of data is the key. Will AFS stand the case? Does anyone think AFS is be faster/slower? If so why? Anyone have any experience of using AFS for this type of job, or maybe you have thoughts about AFS ability to perform good/well in this type of envoriment? Will the fact that we use a local client-cache make the difference compared to NFS/SMB/Novell, or should we assume the cache to make no difference? Any thoughts or clues greatly appreceated, as allways. Thanks, /peo
