24 Aug
2000
24 Aug
'00
12:38 a.m.
It's worth taking a look at the trend in space utilization though, because it's entirely possible that at their current rate they may need to buy a new shelf X months down the road anyway, and if so it may be more cost-effective to just buy it now and save the headache and downtime involved with shrinking the existing volume.
I find with our filers that I can pretty much plot out on a graph when a new shelf is needed, and it's usually less than a year.
Of course, the moral of this story is: Be careful when you add disks to volumes.
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Mike Sphar - Sr Systems Administrator - Engineering Support Services, BOFH,
GWP, MCP, MCP+I, MCSE, BFD
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Tao [mailto:taob@risc.org]
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 3:14 PM
To: Bruce Sterling Woodcock
Cc: Aaron Sherman; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Re: Removing disks from a volume
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Bruce Sterling Woodcock wrote:
>
> Is the time worth the cost of another disk? I doubt it.
... plus a whole new disk shelf (and the space and power required)
if he runs with full shelves with one spare, the way I suspect most
people do.
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Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org)
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"