Tim -
I set up AFS vice partitions on a Digital Alpha 8400 using RAIDs
sitting behind HSZ hardware controllers. RAID sizes were about 25 and
50 GB. They of course used UFS as AdvFS is (or wasn't the last time I
looked) not supported under AFS. You can also combine RAID
partitions together with LSM if you want really mongo size
partitions. Transarc vfsck knows about LSM device names and finds the
right device.
It worked great for us. Great having big partitions and not having to
worry much about balancing. The only drawback I saw to the approach
is the time it takes to fsck and salvage a partition of this size if
things go south. So I'd recommend picking a partition size that you
feel comfortable with trading off the freedom of not having to
constantly balance things against the time it takes to bring something
back on line.
-dave
