[OpenAFS] mounting lots of volumes quickly

[Neulinger, Nathan]

Nope, sounds like you're already doing things the fastest way I'm aware.
We've definately found that more+smaller file servers yields better
performance and recovery times...

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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@umr.edu
University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leland J. Steinke [mailto:steinkel@pa.net]=20
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 12:57 PM
> To: Neulinger, Nathan
> Cc: openafs-info@openafs.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] mounting lots of volumes quickly
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> Neulinger, Nathan wrote:
> > Did you build with the Bitmap-later option? That will also improve
> > startup speed quite a bit.
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> > Our servers can usually restart in 2-3 minutes. Though they=20
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> > only have a thousand or so volumes on each one.
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> Actually, I set both --enable-fast-restart and=20
> --enable-bitmap-later when I ran=20
> configure, but this was after I had already built the=20
> volumes.  That is the=20
> problem with reading the QuickStartUnix and actually typing=20
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> If I need to rebuild the volumes with these options enabled, so be it.
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> On the down side, your experience of (2-3 minutes/1000=20
> volumes) times the ~30000=20
> volumes I am trying to mount comes up with a start time of=20
> 60-90 minutes, which=20
> is more than what I am seeing (40 minutes) :-(
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> Thanks,
> Leland
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