Re: congrats on OpenBSD SAN... one little question

2005-10-22 Thread Josh Tolley
On 10/21/05, Bob Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i can certainly see how this would be annoying from a scalability standpoint, but how often are you changing user storage limits? it would, however, be most convenient to just have one huge-ass partition :). Annoying from a

Re: congrats on OpenBSD SAN... one little question

2005-10-21 Thread per engelbrecht
Nick Holland wrote: Jason Dixon wrote: On Oct 20, 2005, at 1:49 PM, Joe Advisor wrote: Congrats on the cool OpenBSD SAN installation. I was wondering how you are dealing with the relatively large filesystem. By default, if you lose power to the server, OpenBSD will do a rather long fsck

Re: congrats on OpenBSD SAN... one little question

2005-10-21 Thread Nick Holland
per engelbrecht wrote: Nick Holland wrote: ... Would I love to see the 1T limit removed? Sure. HOWEVER, I think I would handle this application the exact same way if it didn't exist (that might not be true: I might foolishly plowed ahead with the One Big Pile philosophy, and regretted it

Re: congrats on OpenBSD SAN... one little question

2005-10-21 Thread dick
per, We can argue back and forth on the pros and cons of building 1TB partitions or not, but the need for these giant allocations are real enough and from a commen/broader view (small business) the demand is also moving closer and closer. At work we have a disk-to-disk backup server for (for

Re: congrats on OpenBSD SAN... one little question

2005-10-21 Thread Bob Beck
i can certainly see how this would be annoying from a scalability standpoint, but how often are you changing user storage limits? it would, however, be most convenient to just have one huge-ass partition :). Annoying from a scalability standpoint? gimme a break. one huge filesystem

congrats on OpenBSD SAN... one little question

2005-10-20 Thread Joe Advisor
Congrats on the cool OpenBSD SAN installation. I was wondering how you are dealing with the relatively large filesystem. By default, if you lose power to the server, OpenBSD will do a rather long fsck when coming back up. To alleviate this, there are numerous suggestions running around that

Re: congrats on OpenBSD SAN... one little question

2005-10-20 Thread Jason Dixon
On Oct 20, 2005, at 1:49 PM, Joe Advisor wrote: Congrats on the cool OpenBSD SAN installation. I was wondering how you are dealing with the relatively large filesystem. By default, if you lose power to the server, OpenBSD will do a rather long fsck when coming back up. To alleviate this,

Re: congrats on OpenBSD SAN... one little question

2005-10-20 Thread Nick Holland
Jason Dixon wrote: On Oct 20, 2005, at 1:49 PM, Joe Advisor wrote: Congrats on the cool OpenBSD SAN installation. I was wondering how you are dealing with the relatively large filesystem. By default, if you lose power to the server, OpenBSD will do a rather long fsck when coming back up.