On Tuesday, May 16, 2006 02:06:22 PM -0400 Derrick J Brashear
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 16 May 2006, John W. Sopko Jr. wrote:
Just had a user that wants a volume greater then 8GB. We have
always gone by the recommendation of 8GB maximum volumes.
I do not particularly want to manage volumes larger then
8GB but need and official answer to give to this person.
I searched the openafs-devel|info mail archives and did not
see much info on this topic. Is the recommendation still
8GB for OpenAFS 1.4.1? Are there any notes on maximum volume
and file sizes? Thanks for the info.
I think quota overruns at 2TB, but the volume will still work.
You'll be sad if you ever need to move it unless you have fast stuff all
around.
You'll be sad because big volumes take a long time to move.
You'll be more sad if the volume consists of a very large number of small
files, rather than a few large files. If it's going to be lots of little
files, you should encourage the user to structure his data so that multiple
volumes can be used.
Also, you life will become annoying whenever you have volumes which are a
substantial fraction of the typical vice partition size, because finding
places to move them to will be harder.
That said, our current policy allows quotas several times that size,
depending on the situation. Our typical partitions are several hundred GB.
-- Jeff
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