Subject: [OpenAFS] About `dafileserver` vs `fileserver` differences (for small cells) Date: Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 10:05:25PM +0200 Quoting Ciprian Dorin Craciun ([email protected]): > Hello all! > > I understand from the documentation that the main difference between > `dafileserver` and `fileserver` is the "on-demand-attach" of volumes.
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> I ask this also from the perspective of a small cell operator (for
> personal purposes), where attach-on-demand is not an issue, and in
> fact I think I would prefer all my volumes to be attached as early as
> possible.
As I recall, the demand attach file server is a scalability option. Which in
practice means that if you need it, you know it. Me, I have a startup time
under one minute for my small cell of some 400 volumes over 1,5TiB data. This
using a small and old Supermicro machine with ZFS and FreeBSD.
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