We have servers with 19T Raid6, split into 24 partitions (to keep things in the /vicep[a-y] range). We expect that disk size will double this year, so they'll be at 38T. After that, the 1.4T limit will become important, so yes... there is a need to cope with larger partition sizes.
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 12:45 -0700, Dale Ghent wrote: > On May 9, 2007, at 11:28 AM, Zach Schimke wrote: > > > I don't think that requiring anyone in that situation to have 10 / > > vicep[a-j] is a good solution. > > It's not really a bad thing to have 10 (or more) vice partitions. In > fact, if the underlying storage system for your vice partitions has > adequate IO headroom, spreading your volumes over many vice > partitions can speed salvaging after a crash. > > /dale > > -- > Dale Ghent > Coordinator, Storage and UNIX Systems > UMBC - Office of Information Technology > ECS 201 - x51705 > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
