Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 09:14:31 -0500 From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: large filesystems/multiple disks Message-ID: <199504011414.GAA12187@freefall.cdrom.com>
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The main gain is just-in-time meeting of storage requirements on
huge databases that grow incrementally slow. The next most
[snip]
is largely a useless application. So while it is a cool feature,
it has limited practical utility.
Actually we dont use it nearly as offen to add just-in-time storage
requirements, but to have a single fileserver partition, or news partition or
whatever, which makes management of such dynamic data (before spanning
capabilities are filesystems always had wildly changing utilization
characteristics) a hell of a lot easier, and more sane. Since everything we do
'round here is backed up nightly, it isnt a problem if a disk fails. Actually,
on our most critical servers we also do mirroring of the data to ensure
realtime backups are available. (Any plans for mirroring? :)
-Crh
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Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu
http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/
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