[OpenAFS-devel] Requesting clarification regarding volume size limit.

[Kangesh Gunaseelan]

Thanks for confirming the first part of my request.

What is the behavior of AFS when it comes to enforcing the limits?
For example, will AFS prevent a file from being copied to a volume if 
that particular file's size causes  the size limit to exceed 8 GB? 
If AFS allows copying to occur, what would be the side effects? 
Or, is volume limit just a recommendation and not a hard limitation?

Thanks,
Kangesh




At 02:52 PM 4/5/01 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>Kangesh Gunaseelan <kangesh@real.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> It will be great if someone could confirm my understanding of volume size
>> limits and answer some questions regarding how AFS enforces volume size 
>limits.
>> The release notes says volume sizes are limited to 8GB.  This limit really
>> applies only to files that are part of the specific volume, right?  In
>> other words, even though the installation process calls for creation of a
>> root.cell volume that doesn't mean the total AFS file space is limited to
>> just 8GB, instead, there can be any number of volumes in addition to
>> root.cell and each volume's total file size is limited to 8 GB, right?  The
>> total file space would just be limited to the cumulative partition sizes
>> and an individual partition size would be limited to the standard
>> filesystem size limitation, right?
>
>Correct.
>
>-derek
>
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