[532] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: some questions about using AFS to share core OS files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mahesh "BigMan" Subramanya)
Thu Jan 16 14:21:05 1992
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 92 12:55:38 EST
From: mahesh@numenor.next.nd.edu (Mahesh "BigMan" Subramanya)
To: info-afs@transarc.com
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 this, I trust you mean a single workstation with many users, no? If
not, then please elaborate. At Notre Dame, we run pretty much all of
our workstations with just enuff stuff on the local disks to permit the
systems to boot. Almost *everything* else is a link into the AFS
hierarchy......
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