toasters October 2000

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Mac Clients using CIFS filer
by Salim Divakaran 05 Oct '00

05 Oct '00

Has anybody been able to have Macintosh clients access a CIFS only filer without the use of Thursby's Dave software? Thanks. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

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OnTap 6.0
by Lance R. Bailey 05 Oct '00

05 Oct '00

We have a pair of 630s that we've been trying to cluster for about 15 months. Downtime is that hard to schedule. We are upgrading to a pair of 760s, already clustered, hopefully next weekend. Because the upgrade from 5.X to 6.0 is lengthy (~ 1 hour i have heard) we are considering upgrading the pair to 6.0 before the move, otherwise it might be many months before I can schedule a downtime of even that hour. versions that are "anything.0" are always treated by me as ... suspect ... so I am looking for comments/experience on the stability of 6.0 - while i know that we can back out, i'm going to be lynched if the new filers turn out to be unstable. thanks. -- email: lance_bailey(a)pmc-sierra.com box: Lance R. Bailey, unix Administrator vox: +1 604 415 6646 PMC-Sierra, Inc fax: +1 604 415 6200 105-8555 Baxter Place http://www.lydia.org/~zaphod Burnaby BC, V5A 4V7 Some users are armed. And some are just plain dangerous -- Dan Long

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Reading / viewing PKTT traces
by Weber, Walter 05 Oct '00

05 Oct '00

"Jeff Stampes" wrote: >"Hawley, Rob" wrote: > >> The filer itself is a good line analyzer ( using pktt). We regularly use it >> when line traces are required at customer sites. > >Didn't know about this before...now is there a way we can analyze the file it >dumps on our own? Get ethereal , from http://ethereal.zing.org/ -- it's open source, and includes links under downloads for binary distributions for Win32 and a variety of Unix distribs. The Win32 distribution includes "editcap.exe" to convert from libpcap/tcpdump formats to a variety of commercial analyzers. ...walt... Disclaimer: StorageNetworks is astute enough to ignore my opinions, so there is no way I'm able to speak officially for the company.....

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by Louis Brune 05 Oct '00

05 Oct '00

Being a rather paranoid and conservative old (censored), I generally like for my peers to whack on new things before I install it. But there it is! Multiple paths for cifs homes! Sooo, when do we think 6.[whatever] will be Recommended? -- Louis <l.brune(a)ericsson.com>

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Re: Multiple cifs.homedir paths (Was: RE: Optimal volume size)
by pharrigan＠usgs.gov 05 Oct '00

05 Oct '00

You are thinking of DFS (Distributed File System) available with NT 4.0 server. We use automount extensively and I find DFS very similar in design and function. We use DFS in production "with good success" according to the "NT camp". Darrell Fuhriman <darrell@grumblesm To: toasters(a)mathworks.com urf.net> cc: Sent by: Subject: Re: Multiple cifs.homedir paths (Was: RE: Optimal volume owner-toasters@mat size) hworks.com 09/29/00 12:57 PM All this cifs homedir talk has got me thinking. I recall that there was a Microsoft made product which was essentially an automounter for NT. Does anyone know the name of the product in question, and have any experience with it? I would love to be able to point users at one location, and have them find the right toaster. Darrell

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NDMPcopy for Solaris 7
by Premanshu Jain 05 Oct '00

05 Oct '00

Guys... I am finding it hard to compile ndmpcopy on a Solaris 7 box. here is the errormessage while I run a make. Your inputs welcome..Does anybody have a compiled copy of ndmpcopyfor Solaris 7..? Thanks, Prem 408 565 3573 _________________________________________________________________ #pwd /opt/ndmp/ndmpcopy # make for i in lib src; do make -C $i all || exit 1; done make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/ndmp/ndmpcopy/lib' rpcgen -C -h -o ndmp.h ndmp.x gcc -g -Wall -W -Wstrict-prototypes -c log.c -o log.o gcc -g -Wall -W -Wstrict-prototypes -c comm.c -o comm.o rpcgen -c -o ndmp_xdr.c ndmp.x gcc -c -g ndmp_xdr.c ar rv libndmp.a log.o comm.o ndmp_xdr.o a - log.o a - comm.o a - ndmp_xdr.o ar: creating libndmp.a ar: writing libndmp.a make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/ndmp/ndmpcopy/lib' make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/ndmp/ndmpcopy/src' gcc -ansi -O -Wall -g -I../lib -DDEBUG -c main.c gcc -ansi -O -Wall -g -I../lib -DDEBUG -c dump.c dump.c: In function `ndmp_restore': dump.c:269: incompatible type for argument 1 of `longLongToQuad' make[1]: *** [dump.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/ndmp/ndmpcopy/src' make: *** [all] Error 1

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quota report tools
by Manny Kaiser 05 Oct '00

05 Oct '00

Hi, Has anyone developed any tools that use the quota report command as input. I am interested in any gui/web/excel macro/etc that can be used for several puposes: - capacity planning and disk usage trends - user/manager view of quota usage - adminsitrator alarm of quota limits reached Thanks Manny

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RE: Optimal volume size
by Clarke, John L. (CIS) 04 Oct '00

04 Oct '00

We have a similar situation on our F740. We want to keep the volume size small because: a) Restores can take forever as the data size gets bigger. b) 10-14 disks is a good compromise on reliability. Having 2 out of 14 disks go bad at one time is much rarer than 2 out of 51 disks. c) If you upgrade disks/shelves in the future, you will likely do it a volume at a time. We did this with a volume with 180GB and the volcopy took 6-7 hours to complete. It is NOT very fast. With 400GB+ in a volume, that should be 2-2.5x longer. John -----Original Message----- From: Moshe Linzer [mailto:Moshel.Linzer@nsc.com] Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 4:31 PM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Optimal volume size We are moving from a 630 with a single 350GB volume (51x9GB SCSI) to a new 760 with 14 36GB disks. Our Netapp support recommends creating a 14-disk raid group, with a single raid group per volume (giving us a maximum volume size of around 400GB). I understand why 14 disks is a good number for a raid group (balance chances of disk failure vs efficient use of disks), but what is the reasoning behind keeping volume size down to around 400GB? Is it just dependant on restore time from tape? In which case, as faster tapes become available (LTO?), this number should increase. Does it also lessen chances of file system corruption on the volume, or is it just a warm fuzzy feeling that all your eggs (so to speak) are not sitting in one 1.2 terabyte volume? If my max volume size will remain the single raid group, I would like to divide my data into 2 smaller volumes from the start, so I don't start off with a maxed-out volume. This means using a time-consuming ndmpcopy or rsync process to move the data, instead of the faster volcopy or snapmirror. Thanks for your insights. Moshe

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unix Opnet licenses
by Frank Gilmurray 04 Oct '00

04 Oct '00

Does anyone out there run a unix Opnet license server on their filer? The Opnet licenses know where they're installed and if you restore a disk, they will no longer work (because now they're in a different place). I don't know of Opnet uses the inode number to do this or what. Thanks, Frank -- Frank Gilmurray Sr Systems Administrator SRI International tel: (650) 859-3246 333 Ravenswood Avenue fax: (650) 859-4812 Menlo Park, CA 94025 email: frank(a)erg.sri.com

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AW: quota report tools
by Ulrich Neumann 04 Oct '00

04 Oct '00

if you're a nt-man ... try srm from highground software. http://www.highground.com/PRODUCTS/netapp_ed.htm they are developing in conjunction with netapp a special version for filer(s). works on nt with iis. we will eval this with fileprospector in near future ... newmy -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]Im Auftrag von Manny Kaiser Gesendet: Mittwoch, 4. Oktober 2000 14:49 An: toasters(a)mathworks.com Betreff: quota report tools Hi, Has anyone developed any tools that use the quota report command as input. I am interested in any gui/web/excel macro/etc that can be used for several puposes: - capacity planning and disk usage trends - user/manager view of quota usage - adminsitrator alarm of quota limits reached Thanks Manny

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