Summary Online:Disksuite 2.0

From: John Hogue (jhogue@asic.sc.ti.com)
Date: Mon Jan 03 1994 - 10:24:07 CST


Thanks to all who responded to my querry regarding Online:Disksuite 2.0. It
seems that there must be a type-o in the 2.0 manual. All but one respondee
agreed that the Online:Disksuite does allow one to create filesystems > 2 GBytes.
The one respondee who said otherwise got his information from a sun sales rep
(which is why I addressed my question to this forum in the first place).

Thanks to:

Birger A. Wathne (No return address)
Linda Cygan "
Jimmy Brown "
John Turner john@zim.bms.com
Glenn Satchell glenn@uniq.com.au
Rick Heaton rheaton@synaptics.com
Andreas Karrer karrer@bernina.ethz.ch
Tony Kocurko tony@sparky.esd.mun.ca
Will Snow will.snow@corp.sun.com

and special thanks to

Syed Zaeem Hosain szh@zcon.com

who provided a copy of an Online:Disksuite FAQ (October 1992) from The
Florida SunFlash.

Original querry:

> We are anticipating receiving a new SC1000 with ~ 90GByte of disk space.
> I've been reading about Online:Disksuite 2.0 and after talking to a
> Tech Rep at SMC I thought I had found a tool to allow me to effectively
> create file systems > 2GBytes. However, on page 38 of the 'Online:Disksuite
> 2.0 Administration Guide' says:
>
> You can expand mounted or unmounted UFS file systems with the
> Online: Disksuite concatenation facilities and the growfs (1M)
> command. (blah, blah, blah...)
> Mounted or unmounted file systems can be expanded up the new
> size of the metadevice on which the file system resides.
>
>
> But on page 42 the guide states:
>
> Mounted or unmounted file systems can be expanded up the new
> size of the metadevice on which the file system resides.
> After the metadevice is configured, it can be used just as
> if it were a physical partition. That means it can be used
> as a block device (up to two gigabytes) or raw device up to
> one terabyte in size...
>
> Q.1 Are not UFS file system read/writes done to block devices?
>
> Q.2 Does anyone really know if Online:Disksuite 2.0 will do what I
> want? Specifically, I need to know if it will allow me to create
> regular file systems (i.e. to hold user data and applications)
> greater than 2 GBytes.

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John Hogue, Paranet, Dallas | email: jhogue@dfw.paranet.com ------- assigned to ---------- | --------------or--------------- ASIC Workstation Support Group | email: jhogue@sc.asic.ti.com Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX | TI MSGID: jfh7 | (214) 997-5249



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