[HCoop-Discuss] local advocacy

[Davor Ocelic]

On Thu, 1 May 2008 09:57:31 +1000
"David Crawshaw" <crawshaw at hcoop.net> wrote:

> On 30/04/2008, Davor Ocelic <docelic at hcoop.net> wrote:
> > Maybe you don't realize we offer this, but you can take an OpenAFS
> > client, install it on your own workstation, and access files in
> > /afs/hcoop.net/... as if they were a local directory on your system.
>
> I try to use it, but AFS is terrible over high-latency links, like the
> one under the pacific to Aus. It takes about 10 times as long to
> upload with cp to afs than with scp to mire.

You might have seen some latency due to your local OpenAFS cache
retrieving directory listings etc., but AFS writes the file on
close(), and in my experience when the write happens, it works quite
well, comparable to scp. YMMV though. 

> And I'd like to mention it in the poster, but I don't think it's very
> important. Word count should be kept low. The few people who know what
> OpenAFS is will get the message, but most are only interested in
> scp/ftp.

Ok.

See ya,
-doc