so long, Jörg _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
I've been using OpenAFS now for three years and I am really impressed by
its possibilities and performance. Now I am in a new company with about
40 clients all running LTSP. We are still using NFS for our users homes
and shared directories and it slowly gets a real pain in the ass. I am
really missing ACLs, useful quotas the possibility to make everything
publicly available.
Now my Problem/thoughts are that one of the great things about OpenAFS
is the cache. It heavily reduces disk writes on the server, which is
currently our main problem. Now with LTSP this could become very
interesting, because since most applications are run on one server disk
IO could again be the bottleneck. There are just some applications like
Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice.org that are run on the local
machines with their own OpenAFS client and could really take advantage
of the cache.
One thought that came to me would be using a ramfs as cache. Would that
be possible??
I hoped to get some input about that topic here. What are your thoughts
about that? OpenAFS definitely has some huge advantages over NFS, but I
am really concerned that it won't work out that good with LTSP.
