[OpenAFS] Solaris servers and >1TB disks

[Alf Wachsmann]

On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, Stephen Joyce wrote:
> 	Can anyone confirm that the Solaris OpenAFS inode server will
> function normally on a >1TB ufs, but EFI labelled, disk (I'm planning 7
> 200GB partitions)?  I'm assume so, but am uncertain enough to ask. Multiple
> LUNs of less than 1TB each are another option.

See https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2004-March/012514.html
The answer: it does not work (yet).


> 	Should I just ditch the inode server and go with the namei server
> on Solaris (so that I can turn on logging to reduce the need for fscks)?  I
> think I remember reading that there's a not-insignificant performance
> penalty between inode and namei, but I can't seem to find that info right
> now.

I have done some performance testing with Solaris 9 on x86 and saw a
some performance difference between inode and namei but it depends on
the profile of your applications.
See http://grand.central.org/twiki/bin/view/AFSLore/PerformanceWork

-- Alf.

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