[8441] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: guidelines for max volume sizes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Esther Filderman)
Tue Jan 30 09:08:06 2001
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To: info-afs@transarc.com, afs-info@openafs.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:41:39 PST."
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:00:51 -0500
From: Esther Filderman <ecf@psc.edu>
> What I heard in the class is that this is the maximum RECOMMENDED and
> SUPPORTED volume size, not the physical maximum for the software.
I suspect that it's also in part to what Transarc's AFS backup system can
handle. But I have little experience with that stuff, so I can't say for
certain.
We have a handful of volumes over 8G. Our biggest volume is 50G. We don't try
to backup anything over a few gigs, just because it slows down the level 0
dumps. [This will likely change as the hardware we use for backups gets
faster.]
We've made sure the big volumes are moveable. They're probably restorable from
backup, but since we don't back them up, we've not had occassion to try.
e.
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ecf@psc.edu Esther Filderman moose+@cmu.edu
Senior System Mangler, News & AFS Dominatrix
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
