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Re: some questions about using AFS to share core OS files

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyle_Seaman@transarc.com)
Thu Jan 16 12:52:14 1992

Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1992 11:17:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Lyle_Seaman@transarc.com
To: Info-AFS@transarc.com, Wallace Colyer <wally+@andrew.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <cdRNyrq00WAqE6Tdth@andrew.cmu.edu>

Wallace Colyer <wally+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> If you have multi-user workstations it is important that as much of the
> "often-used" software is kept on the local disk and not AFS.  The AFS
> cache manager has major concurrency problems on multi-user workstations.

By "multi-user workstations", you mean 9+ simultaneous users, don't
you, Wallace?

At any rate, we've fixed several problems of this sort in AFS 3.2.  I
hope that's most of them. 

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