David Littlewood 793-8832 writes:
> What's the value for minimum freespace (-m) that set up for the
> fileserver in BosConfig? A user should be able to take the partition to that
> limit but not absolutely fill it up which used to happen with the pre 3.3 afs
> code. We're like everyone else in that we overbook partitions and individual
> writes can fail if the limit is reached. That's a risk that we accept when
> the sum of the allocations exceeds the total space available on the partition.
Command 1 is '/usr/afs/bin/fileserver -m 1'
So far I have heard:
"The problem was fixed in 3.3a. Or was it 3.3."
"Don't overbook your quotas." This is equivalent to "Hurts when you do
that? - Don't do that."
The use of quotas is ridiculous in our computing context. And are we
supposed to recompute everyone's quotas every time we use 'balance'?.
If the problem is fixed in 3.3a, I will be happy to upgrade now instead
of waiting for 3.4. I haven't heard from Transarc on this yet. If it
has been fixed, I'm not the only one who isn't aware of it.
Filling up a partition is an occurrence to be expected in the normal
course of events. If it results in loss of data, something is broken
and needs to be fixed.
-Rick
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