From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eliza Lau >Our 3494 with 3590K tapes in 3 frames is getting full. >Instead of adding another frame or upgrading to 3590H or 3592 >tapes we are looking into setting up a bunch of cheap ATA >disks as primary storage. > >The FILE devclass defines a directory as its destination and >JFS2 has a max file system size of 1TB. Does it mean the >largest stgpool I can define is 1TB?
No. What it means is that the largest single volume in your diskpool can be 1TB. You could have, say, 30 volumes @ 500GB per volume, making a total storage pool size of 15TB. Every two volumes would be in their own filesystem. If you're using a disk farm as your primary storage pool, fault tolerance is strongly recommended. RAID0 and RAID1+0 would be more expensive; RAID5 might make more sense, as long as you were using a proper monitoring system (properly set up) to watch the health of your disks. Are you using CACHE=YES in your proposed disk solution? -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Berbee Information Networks
