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Re: File access across campus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel P. Cooper)
Fri Apr 29 14:48:21 1994
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1994 10:58:51 -0500
To: mlbarrow@MIT.EDU (Michael L. Barrow), resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
From: joel.p.cooper.1@nd.edu (Joel P. Cooper)
At 10:56 PM 4/28/94 -0400, Michael L. Barrow wrote:
>How many DOS boxes do you have using the NFSxAFS translator? We used it
>here at MIT and wouldn't exactly call it a "service" -- so to speak. It
>will eat files if you try to write, etc. It's my understading that
>Transarc warns about the use of this beast.
An additional comment: The learning curve has been uniform here working on
this--I didn't intend to single out our DOS folks. On the UNIX side,
figuring out an optimal setup for the translator system isn't done yet. We
are currently running the NFS server/AFS client with either of the
following parameters:
afsd -rmtsys
or
afsd -rmtsys -stat 2000 dcache 800 -daemons 3 -volumes 70
We are also running using a disk for AFScache. We plan to use memory for
AFScache and measure performance improvement.
Again, any comments you might have on either the PC-NFS, NFS side, or
NFSxAFS translator would be most welcome.
Joel
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