Hello,
I have a DEC 2000 axp running OSF v3.0 as the news server. The news spool
is on a advanced file system of 3 x 1g disks.
The advfs has stuffed up because it crashed in the middle of a defragment.
Running an ls -R from the top of the partition hangs the machine. I think
I'll have to reinitalize the file system.
My main problem is that I don't want to have to wait a couple of days touching
one million files then deleting them to pre allocate the meta data. So
I have a couple of questions.
- If I run defragment on a regular basis will that avoid the problem
of running out of meta data? Should defragment be run on a regular basis?
- If the above doesn't work, would creating the advfs domain on a 3.2
machine (using the '-x' option to preallocate) then moving it back to
a 3.0 machine work?
- Once I've allocated the meta data, does vdump/vrestore keep the preallocated
meta data? ie vdump on to tape and then vrestore will have the meta data
already pre allocated.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks
Barry Lynam
PS Does anyone have a "Care for and maintence of you Advfs"?
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