On Jul 6, 3:06pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED], "s wrote:
> Subject: TR-14554 (AIX disk mirroring and AFS) (fwd)
>
> Hi!
>
> We are thinking of implementing disk mirroring in Boca AFS cell.
> Please let us know if you have information on AIX disk mirroring in AFS.
> A reply to our inquiry about disk mirroning from transarc is attached.
>
I suggest you *not* do this !! It is dangerous and probably unsupported.
What is your motivation for doing it ???
> Thanks - Sesharao
>
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> Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 11:29:57 -0400 (EDT)
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: TR-14554 (AIX disk mirroring and AFS)
>
> Dear Sesharao:
>
> Sorry it's taken a while to reply to your inquiry about whether AFS
> supports AIX disk mirroring TR-14554). Our Product Engineer is still
> quite busy working on the remaining AFS 3.4 beta ports, and didn't
> respond to my inquiry right away.
>
> As I understand it, official AFS "support" for AIX disk mirroring is
> more a matter of certifying that it works than of altering AFS.
> Apparently, all of the work involved is on the AIX side, and performed
> by the administrator--altering the disk setup at a sufficiently low
> level that both disks appear to AFS as one partition. To date,
> Transarc has not performed this certification for AFS 3.4 or any
> earlier version of AFS. One of our developers says that he believes
> that disk mirroring should work, but as far as I know, no one at
> Transarc has tried it here.
>
> Our Product Engineer's AFS 3.5 "todo" list includes certification of
> disk mirroring, but it is of course competing for attention with
> numerous other possible features and fixes. To be honest, not many
> other customers have requested that we certify this feature, so its
> priority is not very high. If you are aware of other AFS customers
> (IBM sites or otherwise) that would like us to certify AIX disk
> mirroring, please have them contact Product Support.
>
> I saw your post about this issue to info-afs, but have not seen any
> responses. If anyone writes to you directly about their experiences,
> or if you decide to experiment with disk mirroring yourself, I'd
> certainly appreciate your sharing that information with me.
>
> Sorry I can't be more helpful at this time.
>
> Tony Mauro
> Transarc AFS Support
>
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