[Veritas-vx] Vxdtcl enable takes long time

2008-07-25 Thread Mamatec Team
Hi all. Scenario Veritas Volume Manager 4.0.2 Normal tasks to discover new lun from IBM storage. All ok at OS level but in two nodes vxdctl enable went well on the last one took 45 mins... An operator did ctrl-c then some DG configuration miked up.. any clue on this? Is it dangerous doing ctrl-c w

Re: [Veritas-vx] Usage of snapshot and checkpoint.

2008-07-25 Thread Scott Kaiser
Three other points -- 1. Checkpoints use the free space within the file system. Snapshots need a dedicated, separate disk/LUN 2. Checkpoints have several optimized code paths, so their overhead is lower than that of Snapshots. 3. Snapshots provide a raw device view of the file system (checkpoints