-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2013-01-15 20:24, Jeff Blaine wrote: > Are people still doing things like mapping user home directory > volumes to certain partitions on certain servers, keeping track in > a database, etc? > > What does this buy, assuming all data served from storage comes > from like hardware (speed, capacity, etc)? > > We've kept up this practice and I'm not real sure why we bother. I > cannot see any case where it has helped us in any significant way > in the last 15 years (my hire date, this practice was already in > place then) and am looking to decomplexificate our environment > where possible. > > Thoughts?
We do have a order of "all homes on this partition, all project on another" to simplify RO release and lazy-man-backup. As not all partitions are equally fast, it does help. MfG, Lars Schimmer - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------- TU Graz, Institut fr ComputerGraphik & WissensVisualisierung Tel: +43 316 873-5405 E-Mail: l.schim...@cgv.tugraz.at Fax: +43 316 873-5402 PGP-Key-ID: 0x4A9B1723 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlD2ZPIACgkQmWhuE0qbFyN9HACcCccB7jZemKJCbxVXa90MPfKr kOgAn3f/InGPRm71njWflRQbMPECmTLT =zVNK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
