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From: jgk@osc.COM (Joe Keane)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Does AFS make a local copy of a file
Keywords: afs nfs osf
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Date: 27 Jun 90 00:53:44 GMT
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Reply-To: jgk@osc.COM (Joe Keane)
Organization: Object Sciences Corp., Menlo Park, CA
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AFS used to always fetch an entire file to the local disk.  This strategy
gives you low overhead and good throughput, generally a win.  The downside is
that everything comes to a halt when when a large file is getting fetched.

Now they have partial fetching.  IMHO, it's almost more trouble than it's
worth.  But if you're dealing with large files it helps quite a bit.  More
than that i don't know.  For more information talk to someone at Transarc.