I'm using a dec alpha as our main fileserver. I currently have
24G of user space on it and will probably have 32G by the end of
the year. This is currently mounted on a 1disk, 1 partition
method. I'm looking at moving to LSM on it, but haven't had much
of a chance to play/evaluate it.
o Is it worth moving to LSM with only 20-30G of disk being used ?
o Does LSM require a separate licence to be used ? Administered ?
o How robust is LSM ?
o Is recovery straightforward with disk loss in an LSM group ?
o How good are the administrative tools for it ?
o Any particular tricks/traps to keep in mind when deploying it ?
o Is it "easy" to have a mix of LSM and non LSMed mounts ?
o Performance issues if any ? (these will all be nfs exported..)
o Prestoserve compatibility ? I have prestoserve installed now.
I've planned on moving from UFS to ADVFS with this upgrade and take
this fileserver from 3.2C to either 4.0 or 4.0A.. Anyone have comments
on 4.0A w/ LSM ? The disk mix is a RZ29s/RZ28s across 3 scsi buses.
It's getting painful having /home mounted across 3 disks with symlinks
to keep it logical and i'd like to LSM this for example into a single
8G filesystem.
I'll summarise back to the list.
thanks,
-jason
Received on Sat Nov 09 1996 - 01:20:06 NZDT