Hello Managers,
On some of our machines (all running 4.0F) we run into the BMT
Exhaustion problem where we get an "out of space" error before acutally
using up all the disk space in an AdvFs domain. To make matters worse,
we do not have an AdvFs utilities license to used the addvol -x -p
utilities to expand the volumes. So I often need to recreate the
domains to accomodate our growing datasets.
I have Mr. Steven Hancock's book "Tru64 UNIX File System Administration
Handbook". It says that systems wich constantly create and delete small
files will often suffer from BMT Exhaustion problems. I was told by one
of our engineers that they store and delete 17 million tiny files on
some directories. The book also says that after Tru64 4.0, BMT has been
"redisigned to eliminate the possibility of exhaustion".
So I've priced both AdvFs Utilities license, which is VERY very
expensive; and Tru64 5.1 (whatever is the latest version) OS upgrade,
which is also expensive, but not as much as the utilities license. If I
simply upgrade the OS, will this end our problems? Although in doing
so, we may break a lot of our software. On the other hand the cost of
the utilities license is almost prohibitive.
Does anyone else have the same problem? Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Kevin
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Kevin Dea
UNIX System Administrator
Alpine Electronics Research of America
Received on Thu Aug 16 2001 - 22:36:39 NZST