[725] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: sizing vice partitions?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wallace Colyer)
Thu Apr 16 12:48:36 1992
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 11:09:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Wallace Colyer <wally+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Info-AFS@transarc.com, Jamey Maze <jnm@ornl.gov>
In-Reply-To: <9204152051.AA02540@oaunx1.CTD.ORNL.GOV>
Excerpts from internet.info-afs: 15-Apr-92 sizing vice partitions? Jamey
Maze@ornl.gov (1317)
> 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:
We use the program I talked about earlier on this list to split
/usr/local into multiple volumes. This is done by splitting /usr/local
by collections and placing each collection into a separate volume. Then
symbolic links are made from /usr/local to the collection specific
directory.
The total disk space used by /usr/local for a single system type in our
environment is probably between 600 and 800 meg. Considering that we
try to keep volumes under 50meg and rarely go over 100meg it would be
real difficult to even break it down by subdirectory in /usr/local (ie,
/usr/local/bin). Not only does it allow for flexibility in moving
volumes, but it keeping them small makes it possible to move them in the
first place. Moving large volumes is real painful.
You can read a new paper about depot via anonymous ftp from:
export.acs.cmu.edu:/pub/depot/depot.ps.Z
There will be a talk about our software management strategies which
heavily use AFS volumes at the AFSUG.
-Wallace
