Since there has been a lot of discussion about namespace virtualization lately, I thought I'd throw in a question.
Nightly, an application creates a fairly large number of files, makes a new directory on an R200, and then dumps the data to it. For a number of reasons, the volume this data is on is 5TB in size and it's currently half full (or half empty, depending on your way of looking at things). The R200 is running 6.5.3P4 and has plenty of space for additional volumes.
From the perspective of the application generating the data as well as from
the perspective of the users accessing it, the volume is expected to be accessible under one particular name. The obvious question is: What do I do when /vol/foo runs out of space and I need /vol/foo2? Usually, I'd play automounter tricks since the directories under the volumes are all uniquely named, but I'd rather not. This is NFS-only and the clients are all sorts of different UNIXish systems.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Alex.