On Jun 17, 9:58am, Pat Wilson wrote:
> Subject: Re: What *is* the problem with >2GB volumes?
>
> >
> > > Transarc says that volumes >2GB are "not supported", but I'm
> > > finding (as have others before me) that they seem to work just
> > > fine, at least on AIX 4.3.2 and AFS 3.4 5.74.
> > >
> > > So - what problems have folks seen? Or are things actually stable,
> > > and Transarc is just being overcautious?
> >
> > I think you cannot use the vos commands.
>
> That's what Transarc _says_, but vos backup, move, and
> dump/restore seem to work just fine. Has anyone *experienced*
> any failures of >2GB volumes?
We had a couple problems restoring a 7GB volume. It took three tries to
finally get the restore, but I am thinking that it may have been a networking
issue at the time. We did get the restore, but when it failed, the failed
volume took up diskspace on the partition and was not listed in a vos listvol
or listvldb command. We had to use volinfo to find the volume id so we could
zap it.
We have quite a few volumes >2GB, but I try to limit them if I can. At
Decorum this year the issue of 2GB volumes was brought up a few times
and Transarc always seemed to skirt the issue with a comment like "that's
on our items to look into...", and that's all they would really say about it.
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