Another tidbit that is either hopelessly banal because I don't understand how AFS works, or really important: WRITING to the same AFS directory works fine. I copy the file from the directory to my local disk and it takes 4 minutes; I delete the file from the remote disk and write it there from my local disk and it takes 30 seconds.
Just a side remark: If the file is smaller than your cache, then this is probably the cache manager writing to the cache, which is supposed to be fast. I'd expect a rather sharp corner in the write performance curve as soon as your amount of data surpasses disk cache size.
On Linux, I have also found the memcache to make more balanced and efficient overall use of your bandwidth when transferring bulk data. I haven't thoroughly investigated random access to small files, but the expectation is that a large-ish disk cache is at an advantage for that.
Cheers - Felix _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
