Re: Volume vary online speed/ Fileserver startup time

[Brian W. Spolarich]

On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Patrick Lathrop wrote:

| We have around 20,000 AFS volumes spread out across 12 disk partitions on one
| of our SparCServer 1000 systems running Solaris 2.6 AFS 3.4a.
| 
| Are there any of the fileserver parameters that I can modify in order to
| speed up the fileserver startup time?  It is currently taking over 30
| minutes to vary all of our volumes online.  This seems a bit slow and
| cumbersome to me. 

  My first reaction is to suggest that you spread your volumes across more
fileservers.  fileserver does take a fair amount of time to ensure that
the state of the volumes is good, and I believe it compares it local
volume headers with the vldb (is this correct?).  Given the large number
of volumes, I'm not surprised at the long startup time.

  -bws

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