[OpenAFS] Solaris servers and >1TB disks

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

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