The response to my question was overwhelming!!! Thanks for the
information. Many of the respondnats pointed out where I could
gaine the information that I requested (without flaming me) and I
appreciate the help. But part of the reason for making the
request from this group was to get the "real story" from folks
actually using the ADVFS. In general I found out that:
1. Most people are very statisfied with ADVFS but there were
some bugs that mostly have been fixed.
2. However, some of the best features of the system are only
included with the "addon utilities" (which I can't afford right
now).
3. Top advantages (some of which are overlapping)
- quick recovery time after system crash (it takes a few seconds
vs.
many many minutes for large partitions/filesets/whatever)
- easy expansion of file domains (can't *remove* any added
partition
without the utilities license, though)
* you can grow your disks by adding new volumes to old file
domains
it has a nice GUI management tool.
AdvFS is a log based file system, which includes its own space
management features and utilities. It allows adding whole
devices
as new volumes in a domain, whether they be simple disks,
partition
or compound volumes created with LSM. This is dynamic.
More Info needed??
Digital's got a hype page on it too:
http://www.unix.digital.com/unix/file_systems/advfs.html
I asked a very similar question before we got the Alpha, so you
might want
to check the archives:
The official Web archives are available at
http://www.ornl.gov/cts/archives/mailing-lists/
The FTP archives are in
ftp://ftp.ornl.gov/pub/archives/mailing_lists/alpha-osf-managers/
Unofficial Web archives are available at
http://www-archive.stanford.edu/mail-archs.html
http://www.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de/mailing-lists/Alpha-OSF-Managers/
http://www.bive.unit.liu.se/~bive/listor/
Received on Wed Mar 19 1997 - 18:40:54 NZST