Hello,
I am writing to the list to help solve an internal debate we are having. The
debate deals with advfs volumes and stripe sets. The root of the arguement is
the following:
A file can only be as big as the volume that it resides on. Files cannot
cross volume sets. For example if you have a two stripe sets of 4gb and you
put the two stripe sets together using advfs addvol command to create a 8gb
file structure, the largest file cannot be larger than 4gb because files
cannot cross volume sets.
It is an easy way to grow file structures I agree, but there are several
limitations, I/O performance, and file sizes are the main limitations in doing
this. A 8gb or what ever size stripe set should give better read & write
performance than a series of stripe sets bound together by the addvol command.
What does the list think, I will summarize. If you need more info just ask.
jim jones
Received on Tue Apr 11 2000 - 13:22:10 NZST