[OpenAFS] Solaris servers and >1TB disks

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Sunday, March 28, 2004 10:27:11 -0800 Alf Wachsmann 
<alfw@slac.stanford.edu> wrote:

> 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).

Not quite.  A >1TB filesystem as a vice partition won't work, because vfsck 
doesn't understand the modified filesystem structure required to support 
this.  We're working with Sun on getting this situation resolved.

But what Stephen is asking about is several smaller filesystems on a >1TB 
_disk_ (i.e. a RAID array).  I see no reason why that shouldn't work; none 
of our code (including vfsck) knows anything about disk labels.


-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
   Sr. Research Systems Programmer
   School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA