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

[Jeffrey B. Woodward]

I can't speak for Transarc AFS, but on Openafs 1.0.4 (with AFS_NAMEI_ENV
enabled) on Solaris 8, I have several volumes (approx. 20 of them) that are
all larger than 10GB with the largest being about 80GB. I recently 'vos
moved' all of these volumes from "older technology" disks to "newer
technology" disk without any problems while the data was online (in total,
about 1.5TB of data was moved in this fashion); as it turns out, the largest
volume was moved acrossed servers.

-Jeff Woodward
 Project Manager - Systems and Systems Integration
 The fMRI Data Center
 Dartmouth College
 6162 Moore Hall
 Jeffrey.B.Woodward@Dartmouth.EDU


----- Original Message -----
From: "Neulinger, Nathan" <nneul@umr.edu>
To: <ckarney@sarnoff.com>; <openafs-info@openafs.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 9:59 AM
Subject: RE: [OpenAFS] What's the limit on volume size?


> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Charles Karney Email: ckarney@sarnoff.com
> > Sarnoff Corporation Phone: +1 609 734 2312
> > Princeton, NJ 08543-5300 Fax: +1 609 734 2586
> >
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