[535] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: some questions about using AFS to share core OS files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hascall (Project Vincent))
Thu Jan 16 18:13:10 1992
To: Info-AFS@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: Wallace Colyer's message of Thu, 16 Jan 92 15:11:00 -0500.
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 92 15:42:30 CST
From: John Hascall (Project Vincent) <john@iastate.edu>
> I have received several questions about what a multi-user workstation
> is. In our case it is a machine that servers 5 or more active terminal
> based users. We have machines that have concurant AFS access with up
> to 9-12 terminal users on DecStation 5000 class machine, but we
> seriously attempt to place key software on the local disk.
All this talk of problems with multiple user's on AFS served systems is
somewhat troubling (while most of our workstations have either a single
user or just a few users at once, our "telnet" machine (a DS5000) generally
has dozens of users). I, for one, would appreciate someone from Transarc
explaining what this is all about.
Thanks,
John
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