[722] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
sizing vice partitions?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jamey Maze)
Wed Apr 15 17:54:04 1992
To: Info-AFS@transarc.com
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 16:51:29 -0400
From: Jamey Maze <jnm@ornl.gov>
I would like to tap into the collective wisdom of the people on this mailing
list regarding the sizing of vice partitions. We've got a SPARC2 test server
here with about 300MB to play with on AFS. (More disks on order.) When we
set it up, we created three vice partitions at about ~100MB each. Looking
back, that seems to be a bit small since no volume can grow larger than a
partition. I'm thinking we'd have been better off to make one 300MB
partition. I would have liked to put my /usr/local in one volume, but since
it contains X11R5 and ATK, it'll have to be split into multiple volumes on
multiple partitions. Questions:
-Is there an optimal size for a vice partition?
-Does it make sense to make your vice partitions as large as possible (i.e.,
one vice partition per disk) or is there some reason to make them smaller?
-Is there any reason not to make large AFS volumes?
Thanks!
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