On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Patrick Lathrop wrote:
> Good afternoon,
>
> 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.
Same days ago I sent Transarc some suggestions to improve AFS. One of
them is to build the bitmaps of used/free vnodes not during startup, but
only on demand (when the first allocation of a vnode happens). We do that
in MR-AFS and it reduced server startup time significantly.
>
> Thanks for your attention.
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> Patrick Lathrop
> Internet Systems Coordinator
> San Francisco State University
> Computing Services
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> (415)338-1909 Fax (415)338-0954
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