Starting with the 6.2 release, we added a feature to help with this problem, at least for CIFS clients. If you turn on the cifs.snapshot_file_folding.enable option, the filer will compare newly written files with the same file in the last snapshot, and any identical blocks will not result in new allocation of space. The effect of this is to only allocate storage for blocks that have changed. This is also useful when you are doing SnapMirror, since only the changed blocks have to be transmitted.
Naturally, there is some performance impact to this, but it seems to be a good tradeoff for many customer environments.
Mark Muhlestein -- Network Appliance Engineering
I just installed a F810 with 6.1.2.R3, couldnt find a way to add BOTH my Master NIS server and my Slave NIS server to the NIS settings.
For now i have added only my Master NIS server.
Thanks for your input.
Regards,
/dev/null
On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 10:06:33PM -0400, devnull@adc.idt.com wrote:
I just installed a F810 with 6.1.2.R3, couldnt find a way to add BOTH my Master NIS server and my Slave NIS server to the NIS settings.
Put a comma between them...ie:
options nis.servers 127.0.0.1,127.0.1.2,x.x.x.x
Cool?
rsh <filer> options nis.servers <MasterIP>,<SlaveIP>
You may have to update the rc file by hand; I can never remember which files update automatically and which ones I have to edit.
Geoff Hardin UNIX System Administrator Dallas Semiconductor geoff.hardin@dalsemi.com
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