Re: [Veritas-vx] Linux VxVM Setup

2010-06-01 Thread Pavel A Tsvetkov
Hello! It is recommended to use small filesystem blocks for small files. CFS supports 1024,2048,4096 and 8129 byte blocks. Regards, Pavel___ Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-vx] Linux VxVM Setup

2010-05-30 Thread William Havey
@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; Stuart Andrews Subject: Re: [Veritas-vx] Linux VxVM Setup If the I/O pattern is random, buffering is of little use. So, mount the file system without buffers using mincache=direct, convosync=direct, if you have the SF CFS standard product, If you have the SF CFS Enterprise product

Re: [Veritas-vx] Linux VxVM Setup

2010-05-29 Thread William Havey
value for small files random read write? We are going to implement cluster file system on email cluster -Original Message- From: Stuart Andrews Sent: 29/05/2010, 5:11 AM To: Martin, Jonathan; veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-vx] Linux VxVM Setup Martin

Re: [Veritas-vx] Linux VxVM Setup

2010-05-29 Thread lktho...@gmail.com
...@gmail.com Cc: Martin, Jonathan; veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; Stuart Andrews Subject: Re: [Veritas-vx] Linux VxVM Setup If the I/O pattern is random, buffering is of little use. So, mount the file system without buffers using mincache=direct, convosync=direct, if you have the SF CFS standard

Re: [Veritas-vx] Linux VxVM Setup

2010-05-28 Thread Martin, Jonathan
, -Jonathan From: William Havey [mailto:bbha...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 3:08 PM To: Martin, Jonathan Cc: veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-vx] Linux VxVM Setup Jonathan, Use fdisk to clear up the error state then initialize the disks. Bill On Wed, May 26

Re: [Veritas-vx] Linux VxVM Setup

2010-05-28 Thread Stuart Andrews
] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan Sent: Saturday, 29 May 2010 12:01 AM To: veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-vx] Linux VxVM Setup Thanks for the help. Your post and another emailed to me privately led me to find an issue with the multipath driver. I didn't notice this before

[Veritas-vx] Linux VxVM Setup

2010-05-26 Thread Martin, Jonathan
Greetings all, first time poster here, so please be gentle. I'm trying to run a POC for NetBackup Linux Flashbackup, but to do that I need a VxVM volume and VxFS partition. I've got a 6TB lun presented to a test RedHat 2.6 server as /dev/sdb. When I run vxdiskadm, option 1 to initialize the

Re: [Veritas-vx] Linux VxVM Setup

2010-05-26 Thread William Havey
Jonathan, Use fdisk to clear up the error state then initialize the disks. Bill On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Martin, Jonathan jmart...@intersil.comwrote: Greetings all, first time poster here, so please be gentle. I’m trying to run a POC for NetBackup Linux Flashbackup, but to do