DiskSuite summary
2007-12-25 8:37:00
repackage.
1) Disk Suite does indeed allow one to get past the 2G file system
limit in SunOS, and several respondents use it for that purpose.
2) Backup is reported to work fine .. however
3) One respondant reported difficulties due to the fact that the
backup represents a "file larger than 2G." The only sense I can
make of it is that you can't dd a >2G backup image from place to
place, since the other folks made it clear that they took backups
of >2G file systems all the time.
4) One person warned that there was a performance cost of 15-20%. I
No one else reported that, and I'm inclined to suspect that it
would be tied to the more complex mirroring activities.
5) One person waggled an electronic finger at me over the risk that,
by making a very large file system, I was increasing the recovery
time for disk failure. This is not a problem for me personally,
because I am not combining multiple disks, I'm just avoiding
breaking a single disk into more than one file system.
Thanks,
benson
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