On 7/21/06, Blake Golliher <thelastman@gmail.com> wrote:

The number of files will have an effect as well.  I'm not sure if
anyone outside of NetApp's WAFL team will know the answer.  The inode
conversion happens in the background after the filer is up, and
serving data.  Generally it has little to no effect on production
workload.  YMMV.

-Blake

On 7/21/06, Hasni.Bekkay@shell.com <Hasni.Bekkay@shell.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> We would like to upgrade 2 of our filers to DataOntap 7.3.0P3 and we would
> like to know the time it is going to take for the inode conversion.
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> Details:
> F840.....6.4.4P8 (diskspace 5.4TB)
> FAS960.....6.4.4P8 (diskspace 20.2 TB)
> Also some of the volumes are around 90 - 95%.
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> I appreciated your input....
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> Regards,
> Hasni.Bekkay
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