Just curious... how is the OT 5.x software working for eveyone? Any
problems? Stability probs? Backout (to 4.3.4) problems?
What about quotas and the like?
Just curious...
Tom
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark D Simmons [SMTP:mds@gbnet.net]
> Sent: Monday, June 29, 1998 1:48 AM
> To: quinlan(a)transmeta.com; toasters(a)mathworks.com
> Subject: Re: what data is being used?
>
> I recall asking for this in an RFE sense a year ago as it would be
> incredibly
> useful. Sun just put the capability to track the load on disks at the
> partition
> level in Solaris 2.6 - this sort of stat on a filer would be just as
> useful IMHO
>
> Per quota tree seemed most natural to me as that is already a
> distinctive
> structure in filer housekeeping meta-data. Directory level gathering
> might be
> too much load to put on a filer which is meant to perform under high
> demand...
>
> ...how about an admin command that flips a bit on a directory and
> makes it a
> watchpoint in the filesystem - accesses against anything beneath it
> count on
> that directory's stats. Even if the total number of such points were
> limited
> to put a boundary on overhead in the filer, it would still be a useful
> analytical tool.