Re: PC Interconnection using AFS

[Perry E. Metzger]

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>   Actually, NFS scales reasonably well. 
>   With 10,000 accounts, we put 1000 accounts on each NFS server,
>   probalistically, only 10% of those are reading or writing a file at a
>   time, so the system does just fine. 
> 
> Where did you put the volumes, like /usr, that every client uses all the
> time?
> 
>   We migrated off NFS  over the Summer of 1992, not because NFS didn't
>   scale, but because managing those 1000 filesystems on each server was a
>   nightmare.
> 
> In other words, NFS doesn't scale.

We manage 3000 user accounts with NFS and global automount map
management -- all works quite well. We are trying to move to AFS
mostly for things like replication for availability, not for
performance reasons per se.

Perry