Re: congrats on OpenBSD SAN... one little question

2005-10-21 Thread Josh Tolley
On 10/21/05, Bob Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i can certainly see how this would be annoying from a > > scalability standpoint, but how often are you changing user > > storage limits? it would, however, be most convenient to just > > have one huge-ass partition :). > > > > Annoying f

Re: congrats on OpenBSD SAN... one little question

2005-10-21 Thread Bob Beck
> i can certainly see how this would be annoying from a > scalability standpoint, but how often are you changing user > storage limits? it would, however, be most convenient to just > have one huge-ass partition :). > Annoying from a scalability standpoint? gimme a break. one huge filesy

Re: congrats on OpenBSD SAN... one little question

2005-10-21 Thread dick
per, >We can argue back and forth on the pros and cons of building >1TB >partitions or not, but the need for these giant allocations are real >enough and from a commen/broader view (small business) the demand is >also moving closer and closer. At work we have a disk-to-disk backup >server for

Re: congrats on OpenBSD SAN... one little question

2005-10-21 Thread Nick Holland
per engelbrecht wrote: > Nick Holland wrote: ... >> Would I love to see the 1T limit removed? Sure. HOWEVER, I think I >> would handle this application the exact same way if it didn't exist >> (that might not be true: I might foolishly plowed ahead with the One Big >> Pile philosophy, and regrett

Re: congrats on OpenBSD SAN... one little question

2005-10-21 Thread per engelbrecht
Nick Holland wrote: Jason Dixon wrote: On Oct 20, 2005, at 1:49 PM, Joe Advisor wrote: Congrats on the cool OpenBSD SAN installation. I was wondering how you are dealing with the relatively large filesystem. By default, if you lose power to the server, OpenBSD will do a rather long fsck wh

Re: congrats on OpenBSD SAN... one little question

2005-10-20 Thread Nick Holland
Jason Dixon wrote: > On Oct 20, 2005, at 1:49 PM, Joe Advisor wrote: > >> Congrats on the cool OpenBSD SAN installation. I was >> wondering how you are dealing with the relatively >> large filesystem. By default, if you lose power to >> the server, OpenBSD will do a rather long fsck when >> comi

Re: congrats on OpenBSD SAN... one little question

2005-10-20 Thread Jason Dixon
On Oct 20, 2005, at 1:49 PM, Joe Advisor wrote: Congrats on the cool OpenBSD SAN installation. I was wondering how you are dealing with the relatively large filesystem. By default, if you lose power to the server, OpenBSD will do a rather long fsck when coming back up. To alleviate this, ther

congrats on OpenBSD SAN... one little question

2005-10-20 Thread Joe Advisor
Congrats on the cool OpenBSD SAN installation. I was wondering how you are dealing with the relatively large filesystem. By default, if you lose power to the server, OpenBSD will do a rather long fsck when coming back up. To alleviate this, there are numerous suggestions running around that invo