- since we migrated from a 7.x release, our root volumes are on 32-bit aggregates -- is there a way to have the root volume on a 64-bit
aggregate (and if not, what is the technical reason for it) ?
Think one of the reasons 64bit rool vols are disallowed is bcos they tend to use more space for metadata.
Think the other and more imp. Reason is that it would become infeasible if one decided to revert back to the older version which only supports 32-bit. (should you grow the root vol and then revert, what happens to the data in the root vol that will not be addressable in the 32bit vol)
-----Original Message----- From: Simon Vallet [mailto:svallet@genoscope.cns.fr] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 6:36 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Several questions about ONTAP 8.0 and DS4243 shelves
Hi,
we recently acquired two filers (3140) with DS4243 shelves, and upgraded them to ONTAP 8.0. I know that this is a GA release, but I did notice some glitches (which are perfectly understandable), and have some questions for the people here who understand this better than me :
- installing the 8.0 doc yields a "Documentation for Data ONTAPTM 8.0 is installed, but is out-of-date." message ;
- I couldn't find any firmware updates for the DS4243 shelves on NOW -- is this normal? ;
- we configured the e0M interface (and I think that it is a great idea), but I couldn't find a way to configure the filer to exclusively be administrated through e0M (i.e. the embedded SSH server now answers on both interfaces) ;
- since we migrated from a 7.x release, our root volumes are on 32-bit aggregates -- is there a way to have the root volume on a 64-bit aggregate (and if not, what is the technical reason for it) ?
Do some of you have encountered the same questions ?
Regards, Simon