Re: [OpenAFS] max afs partition size

2008-01-14 Thread Christopher D. Clausen
Can't one create a "sparse file" and loopback mount it for testing? Or do you need to actually have that much space to try it out? I do this for testing iSCSI limits. < wrote: > Neither Derrick nor I have access to a partition with that much > storage in order to test what does and what does no

Re: [OpenAFS] max afs partition size

2008-01-14 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Jeffrey Altman wrote: Neither Derrick nor I have access to a partition with that much storage in order to test what does and what does not work. A quick review of the code indicates that there will be issues with StoreData operations beyond the "reported partition size" simply because the tes

Re: [OpenAFS] max afs partition size

2008-01-14 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Neither Derrick nor I have access to a partition with that much storage in order to test what does and what does not work. A quick review of the code indicates that there will be issues with StoreData operations beyond the "reported partition size" simply because the tests to prevent writing w

Re: [OpenAFS] max afs partition size

2008-01-14 Thread Derrick Brashear
On Jan 14, 2008 4:18 PM, sabah salih <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Jeffrey, >Thank you ever so much for your fast respond. > Is that mean I can not use the rest of the "5.4 TB" ? > If what I can see is just a report and not somthing > I have to worry about. This will be good news.

Re: [OpenAFS] max afs partition size

2008-01-14 Thread sabah salih
Dear Jeffrey, Thank you ever so much for your fast respond. Is that mean I can not use the rest of the "5.4 TB" ? If what I can see is just a report and not somthing I have to worry about. This will be good news. Thanks, Sabah. On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Jeffrey Altman wrote: My guess i

Re: [OpenAFS] max afs partition size

2008-01-14 Thread Stephan . Wiesand
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Jeffrey Altman wrote: The DiskPartitionStats for free blocks, usable blocks, etc. are reported as a 32-bit signed integer with a block size of 1K. Effectively anything larger than 2TB is going to give inaccurate results. The inaccurate display aside, are there any real p

Re: [OpenAFS] max afs partition size

2008-01-14 Thread Jeffrey Altman
My guess is that 5.4TB is larger than the maximum partition size that can be reported in DiskPartitionStats and you are therefore seeing a partition used calculation that is inaccurate. The DiskPartitionStats for free blocks, usable blocks, etc. are reported as a 32-bit signed integer with a bl

[OpenAFS] max afs partition size

2008-01-14 Thread sabah salih
Dear All, I have a 5.4 TB fileserver. running OpenAFS 1.4.4 rxdebug -version afs6 Trying 194.36.2.8 (port 7000): AFS version: OpenAFS 1.4.4 built 2007-06-07 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) df -h /vicepc FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb 5.4T 1.2T 4.1