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- From: Paul Copsey <paul@hectortd.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: AFS
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 96 01:43:16 BST
- Organization: Hector's House
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- Dave Thomas (kthomas@ee.net) wrote:
- > >Erm, the AFS demo has done so on my machine, as has the full pro
- > >version on a friend's, and I've heard a lot more stories of problems
- > >with it from peopel who have paid for it.
- >
- > >And before you say it, yes they were set up properly.
- >
- > Hmm. I have the full release, and I have used it for quite a while now and
- > have had no problems. There are a few things you must do to set it up
- > correctly, and they are all there in the manual. I had a problem after first
- > installing it, and after checking the manual, I found I needed to change some
- > settings in the RDB. Once that was done, it has worked flawlessly.
-
- Like I said, I did all that, as did my friend (who has since had it go
- again!) but the problems still hung around. A shame really.
-
- > I am enjoying not having to deal with invalidated partitions (Ibrowse just
-
- I just have a spare partition for misbehavers
-
- > loves doing that) and also the speed increase.
-
- That was one of the things I wanted from AFS, but it never materialised
- either. I get the same performance gain by just setting up a normal
- disk cache.
-
- Paul
-
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