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Re: Medusa doesn't play well with AFS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Sun Dec 17 17:17:42 2000

Message-Id: <200012172217.RAA18671@multics.mit.edu>
To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com>
cc: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>, aui@MIT.EDU, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "17 Dec 2000 13:05:31 PST."
             <lqelz6g3ms.fsf@pythagoras.eazel.com> 
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 17:17:37 -0500
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>

On 12/17 you wrote:
> Rebecca set up Medusa not to index remote NFS filesystems for similar
> performance reasons, she'd probably be glad to do a similar setup for
> AFS, especially if you guys provide a patch, since we don't have an
> AFS testing environment at Eazel.

Though you probably have other priorities, OpenAFS will allow you to
set up an AFS testing environment relatively easily (you might even
want to use it as part of your infrastructure). I have been told that
the Debian packages are especially slick for setting up a cell.

tibbetts

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