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Re: mixing 18GB and 36GB drives
by Darrell Fuhriman 09 Oct '00

09 Oct '00

Chris Lamb <skeezics(a)measurecast.com> writes: > FWIW, we (hi, Darrell!) helped discover this about 5 years ago on an F330 > that was grown from 2GB drives to a mix of 2GB and 4GB drives. (We beat I thought it was still the 1400 when we did that, but I could be mis-remembering. > problem quite a bit, since all new writes were spread over fewer drives. > Empirical studies (i.e., watching the blinky lights!) highlighted the Heh -- and we had /var/spool/mqueue on there which led to finding a new bug in the lock manager on practically a weekly basis. :) Those were the days, eh? Now I have F760s that never drop below 7000 ops/sec -- hmm, I guess we are keeping up with Moore's Law nicely. And to think, we were considering an Auspex -- my that would have been dumb. Darrell

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budtool
by Louis Brune 06 Oct '00

06 Oct '00

There *must* be a way to back up a filer with more than one volume using Budtool; right? If you're doing this, can you give me a hint? -- Louis

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RE: F520 EOL surprise.
by Clawson, Simon 06 Oct '00

06 Oct '00

I thought the records were out of date, and I was the only one who did'nt get an EOA notice...Ho humm.. -----Original Message----- From: Jim Davis [mailto:jdavis@cs.arizona.edu] Sent: 05 October 2000 22:40 To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: F520 EOL surprise. As the proud owners of two F520s, we were a bit surprised to discover that netapp is discontinuing software support for them at the end of this month. Particularly since nothing was said about that when we paid up for our annual software support contract a few months ago... The webpage at NOW <http://now.netapp.com/NOW/products/eoa/> says a customer letter was sent out about this on 6/29/99, but no one here seems to have gotten a copy. Now fortunately the small print seems to imply the real drop-dead date isn't for another two years, but still, this is not the sort of thing we like to learn from browsing the web. Particularly not *after* the boss has pitched the next 3-years-worth of major purchases to the financial powers that be! So those of you who have a F520 or two humming away in the back room might doublecheck that the netapp EOL department has your current mailing address :(

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NDMPCopy
by Premanshu Jain 05 Oct '00

05 Oct '00

Thanks all for the help. I can now run NDMPcopy successfully. The only diference i see is the directory size. For test I copied a directory from a filer to another using NDMPcopy. The following are the source and destination statatics after the successfull copy operation. Source Destination Size 595 MB 774 MB No of Files 5231 5232 No of folders 363 363 Can anybody tell the reason so that I may start the actual migration safely. Thanks, prem -----Original Message----- From: Premanshu Jain Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 5:09 PM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: NDMPcopy for Solaris 7 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

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Snapshot access usage
by Rick Hulsey 05 Oct '00

05 Oct '00

Does anyone know of a way to tell if files in a snapshot have been used for recovery and how often? My guess is that this could be done by capturing file access statistics on the filer. We are trying to keep snapshots online as long as they are needed, but also trying to not waste space by retaining snapshots too long. If anyone from Netapp is listening and there is not a way to capture these statistics, it would be a good thing to add - Hint, Hint! Rick Hulsey Southwest Airlines 2425 Wyman Mail Stop 4DC Dallas, Tx., 75235 rick.hulsey(a)wnco.com (214) 792-7188 Office (972) 880-6882 Cell (800) 915-3747 Pager

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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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