[OpenAFS] Solaris servers and >1TB disks
Jeffrey Hutzelman
jhutz@cmu.edu
Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:33:01 -0500
On Tuesday, March 30, 2004 13:35:43 -0500 Stephen Joyce
<stephen@physics.unc.edu> wrote:
> Just to recap: do I understand correctly that a >1TB disk is OK as long
> as the separate /vice partitions are reasonable (read < 1TB)?
Yes.
> I notice that solaris, by default, turns logging on for filesystems
> (partitions) larger than 1TB. If that is the only problem, would it
> suffice to simply specify "nologging" when mounting the /vice
> partitions?... Or is there some other issue with the filesystem on such
> large partitions? (note, I'm not saying it's wise to potentially need to
> fsck such a large partition; namei on ufs with logging is probably
> wisest).
It does, and you can turn logging off on such filesystems, but that's not
sufficient. The filesystem structure is different, such that our vfsck
cannot properly check and repair such a filesystem.
-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
Sr. Research Systems Programmer
School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA