AFS + RAID?

Mike Robokoff mrobo@networkcs.com
Thu, 08 Feb 2001 12:45:10 -0600


I have 4 AFS file servers running on a disk array of 7 9gb drives in a
single raid 5 configuration with one warm spare. That comes to a
single 43mb drive. This is running on a RedHat Linux 7.0 box.

I created 7 partitions to match our other file servers.

The system is working fine.

--Mike


Mike W Ellwood wrote:

> What experiences have people had with putting AFS systems
> on RAID storage?
>
> Are there any particular issues/gotchas?
>
> Any configurations that AFS does not like?
>
> With thanks,
>
> Mike Ellwood                                      Mike.Ellwood@rl.ac.uk
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