On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Reinhard Mersch wrote:

//
// We thus have to make ADSM cross mount points (option "DFSBackupmntpnt No"
// when using the DFS enabled client; the non DFS enabled client does this
// anyway, as far as I know). This is quite dangerous, because if any user
// mounts any part of the DFS file tree in his/her own fileset, we back that
// up. And there is no way to prohibit the use of "fts crmount".
//
// We are thus forced to go to "buta". I do not like that very much, because
// I consider "dsm[c]dfs" being superior: it needs less resources due to its
// incremental-forever-concept and offers better service to the users
// (individual restore of several generations of a file).
//

Did you have any difficulty with performance with the dsmdfs client?  I
found with the AFS version to get extremely poor tx rates (< 1.5BG/hour)
whereas with buta I can get almost 12GB/hr.  I have pestered IBM about
this and basically got a "uh.. I dunno... get more hardware" answer.

Thanks.

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Best regards,
Best regards,
Brian

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