[s-x86] Re: Anyone used DiskSuite 4.2

[Larry Beaulieu <beaulieu@xxxxxxxx>]

> |>     I strongly advised that if you have .4 TB or 400 GB filesystem to break
> |> that down. I used to work at Hitachi Data
> |> system testing their storage arrays and found that building
> |> large filesystems are a pain in the kazoo. Now the Clarion Disk
> |> I've only used on SGI system. Their controllers are radically
> |> different that anything I've worked on.
> |> 
> 
> I understand there could be serious problems, but I need a very large NFS, the min
> would be like .4 tera.  If I could build smaller ones and have the tests see it as 
> one large NFS i would.

	Biggest operational problem is if the file system is not stable 
	on bootup you might as well order a 7 course meal waiting for 
	the fsck to complete, which is why I recommended looking at UFS logging.
 
> |>     Now how can I help you further. If the http://docs.sun.com
> |> should have all the man pages and references. The key there or
> |> even if you have the hard manual docs is to read. The answers are there just
> |> have to DIG for it.
> |> 
> |>     Let me know and I'll help you out. Sorry for the long 
> |> love letter there.
> 
> I want to create this monster, how do I do it. I have 100 disks on the CLARiiON, I want to make .4, .2, .2, .2 tera NFS
> and perhalps could I later wipe out the FS and concatnate say like the .2 devices into .6 tera FS? Is that type of
> flexibility posssible?

	Yes.

	Depending on what you are trying to accomplish you can either 
	stripe drives together or concatenate them, and you can also
	concatenate metadevices together to create a larger metadevice.
		

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