[8666] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: Sun A1000 RAID arrays and AFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Mon May 7 17:57:28 2001
Message-Id: <200105072151.RAA07591@frank-n-furter.mit.edu>
To: Mark Montague <markmont@umich.edu>
cc: info-afs@transarc.ibm.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 May 2001 17:10:38 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 17:51:05 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
>> Is anyone using Sun A1000 RAID arrays with AFS? If so, what have
>> been your experiences? Good? Bad?
We're currently using A1000s for about half of the athena.mit.edu
cell; I was the person primarily responsible for integrating them into
our environment, and I haven't had any seriously negative experiences
with them yet.
At the time we purchased them, we were using Solaris 2.6, and they
just worked with it. I had a few problems getting them working with
Solaris 7 when the time came to update to that (hanging at boot time on
a boot -r), but I was able to work around them.
From a management perspective, they're nice; the command line
"raidutil" makes it possible to do almost everything you'll care about
doing without needing to interact with a GUI.
We're planning to continue to buy them for at least the next year;
if you're able to get a good deal on them, I'd recommend you go for it.
Garry Zacheiss
MIT I/S, Athena Server Operations
