[OpenAFS-devel] Max /vicep partition size?

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:05:57 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Alf Wachsmann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> one of the OpenAFS developers told me a while back that the max size
> for a /vicep partition in 2TB. This seems to be not correct.

Ok, but:

> We have a Solaris 10/x86 Sun "Thumper" unit with ZFS partitions:
> /vicepa  750GB
> /vicepb  1.5TB
>
> Once an OpenAFS-1.5.14 namei fileserver starts, we get:
> % vos partinfo thumper01
> Free space on partition /vicepa: 786431928 K blocks out of total 786432000
> Free space on partition /vicepb: -536870962 K blocks out of total -536870912
>
> Is this on overflow only in the reporting or is this really not working?

That's a reporting error. One site who may not wish to speak up has a 
*volume* larger than that.