[OpenAFS] What's the limit on volume size?

[Neulinger, Nathan]

You might not be able to back up, vos dump, or vos move the volume between
servers, but I don't know if that is actually the case or not.

-- Nathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Karney [mailto:ckarney@sarnoff.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 8:56 AM
> To: openafs-info@openafs.org
> Subject: [OpenAFS] What's the limit on volume size?
> 
> 
> [Forgive the Transarc AFS question here, but I suspect this applies to
> OpenAFS too and I dispair of getting anyone from IBM to do 
> more and read
> back the documentation to me.]
> 
> Config
> 
>     Server:
> 	Linux 2.2.16
> 	Transarc AFS 3.6 patch 2 (base config afs3.6 2.18).
>     Clients:
> 	Linux/SGI/NT
> 	Transarc and OpenAFS
> 
> The Release notes for Transarc AFS 3.6 state
> 
>     "AFS supports a maximum volume size of 8 GB"
> 
> This was causing me some inconvenience so before I started 
> splitting my
> data between multiple volumes, I thought I would try ignoring this
> limitation.  As far as I can tell, nothing bad is happening 
> -- no errors,
> no lost files.  Here's the current status:
> 
> Volume Name                   Quota      Used %Used   Partition
> dgg.catqp3.catqp3t1        no limit   9727449    0%         97%
> 
> So is there a limit?  If this is, what is the limit and how does it
> manifest itself?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
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