Re: [OpenAFS] Questions about OpenAFS reality

2006-01-21 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],Jan Johansson writes: All of the above have one common problem. When the disk run out you have big problem. Ladies and gentlemen can we please have your attention. Please stop working, close your files and hold you hands up while we move your data to a new disk. Thank

Re: [OpenAFS] Questions about OpenAFS reality

2006-01-20 Thread Jan Johansson
You received many good answers and I would just like to add some small details. Leroy Tennison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does AFS compare in administrative burden compared to the common PC NOSes (NetWare and AD)? It has been quite long since I saw NetWare but keeping file history so users

Re: [OpenAFS] Questions about OpenAFS reality

2005-12-13 Thread Christof Hanke
Leroy Tennison wrote: ---snip--- Is there a Linux GUI for day-to-day administration? No, I'm afraid. What is the status of server-side byte-range locking? If this isn't a near-term reality what alternatives do people use (SQL server is obviously a possibility, are there other

Re: [OpenAFS] Questions about OpenAFS reality

2005-12-13 Thread Glenn Bjorcken
Christof Hanke wrote: Leroy Tennison wrote: ---snip--- What are people doing for printing, particularly Windows printing? OpenAFS is nothing like Samba where you share printers and files alike over the network. It's a filesystem. Printing has to be done separately. Still it's a valid

Re: [OpenAFS] Questions about OpenAFS reality

2005-12-13 Thread Horst Birthelmer
On Dec 13, 2005, at 1:20 PM, Leroy Tennison wrote: I am just learning OpenAFS and am very impressed with what I see so far. As a result I'm now interested in getting a broad overall picture of it and have several questions. A recent post stated that they had about 7000 users in a single

Re: [OpenAFS] Questions about OpenAFS reality

2005-12-13 Thread Dan Pritts
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 06:20:48AM -0600, Leroy Tennison wrote: A recent post stated that they had about 7000 users in a single cell, I'm wondering what a realistic maximum is (assume 'average' end user file activity - nothing extraordinary). I saw in the archives a refernce to 45k and a

Re: [OpenAFS] Questions about OpenAFS reality

2005-12-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Leroy Tennison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A recent post stated that they had about 7000 users in a single cell, I'm wondering what a realistic maximum is (assume 'average' end user file activity - nothing extraordinary). I don't see any reason why there would ever be any maximum. I suppose at

Re: [OpenAFS] Questions about OpenAFS reality

2005-12-13 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Leroy Tennison wrote: How stable and trouble free is the Windows client? (I saw a statement that the Windows server was considered experimental and not being maintained). Hosting AFS file, volume database, and protection servers on Microsoft Windows platforms is not recommended. There are

Re: [OpenAFS] Questions about OpenAFS reality

2005-12-13 Thread lamont
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Leroy Tennison wrote: Is there a Linux GUI for day-to-day administration? I've never seen an administration GUI that didn't fail to scale long before the scaling limits of the underlying technology were reached. Invariably, my day-to-day reality far exceeds the

Re: [OpenAFS] Questions about OpenAFS reality

2005-12-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2005 13:20 schrieb ext Leroy Tennison: Is there a Linux GUI for day-to-day administration? AFAIK not. What is the status of server-side byte-range locking? If this isn't a near-term reality what alternatives do people use (SQL server is obviously a possibility,