[OpenAFS] Volume "type" mapping to certain partitions

[Lars Schimmer]

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On 2013-01-15 20:24, Jeff Blaine wrote:
> Are people still doing things like mapping user home directory=20
> volumes to certain partitions on certain servers, keeping track in
> a database, etc?
>=20
> What does this buy, assuming all data served from storage comes=20
> from like hardware (speed, capacity, etc)?
>=20
> We've kept up this practice and I'm not real sure why we bother. I
> cannot see any case where it has helped us in any significant way
> in the last 15 years (my hire date, this practice was already in
> place then) and am looking to decomplexificate our environment=20
> where possible.
>=20
> Thoughts?

We do have a order of "all homes on this partition, all project on
another" to simplify RO release and lazy-man-backup.
As not all partitions are equally fast, it does help.


MfG,
Lars Schimmer
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