Re: [OpenAFS] Volume type mapping to certain partitions

2013-01-16 Thread Arne Wiebalck
On Jan 15, 2013, at 8:24 PM, Jeff Blaine jbla...@kickflop.netmailto:jbla...@kickflop.net wrote: Are people still doing things like mapping user home directory volumes to certain partitions on certain servers, keeping track in a database, etc? Yes. What does this buy, assuming all data served

Re: [OpenAFS] Volume type mapping to certain partitions

2013-01-16 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2013-01-15 20:24, Jeff Blaine wrote: Are people still doing things like mapping user home directory volumes to certain partitions on certain servers, keeping track in a database, etc? What does this buy, assuming all data served from storage

[OpenAFS] Volume type mapping to certain partitions

2013-01-15 Thread Jeff Blaine
Are people still doing things like mapping user home directory volumes to certain partitions on certain servers, keeping track in a database, etc? What does this buy, assuming all data served from storage comes from like hardware (speed, capacity, etc)? We've kept up this practice and I'm not

Re: [OpenAFS] Volume type mapping to certain partitions

2013-01-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Jeff Blaine jbla...@kickflop.net writes: Are people still doing things like mapping user home directory volumes to certain partitions on certain servers, keeping track in a database, etc? Yes. What does this buy, assuming all data served from storage comes from like hardware (speed,