Thanks to: Steve Mickeler Mike's List Michael Kalus Hindley Nick Andrew J Caines Wesley Suess TRUCKS, JESSE Tim Chipman Simon-Bernard Drolet Jed Dobson Darren Dunham David Foster Kevin Buterbaugh and others that are still pouring in. I received a link that has a nice summary of DiskSuite vs VxVM at: http://www.eng.auburn.edu/pub/mail-lists/ssastuff/sdsvxvm.html There's a general consensus that DiskSuite is well adapted to very simple fairly static situations, like mirroring of system disks. As soon as good recovery and better flexibility is needed, VxVM is better. It also looks like VxVM is faster for software RAID-5. VxFS boasts a more efficient design when dealing with huge amount of data and huge number of files. The journaling might also be more robust. VxFS also supports bigger filesystem sizes, and supports shrinking (but who's really in need of shrinking a filesystem ? Not me at least). Given the fact that the ScholarPAC price of both VxFS and VxVM is low, we'll go with them. Thanks for all the help! On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Christophe Dupre wrote: > Hello everyone, > we are budgetting our new fileserver, which will have several > terabyte-sized filesystems. We are debating whether Veritas Filesystem > (VxFS) is really worth it. This will be running Solaris 8. > > VxFS is growable and does logging. So does UFS since Solaris 7. > > So what are the true benefits of using VxFS over UFS ? > (Note: we won't be using any database, so the QuickIO argument doesn't > really apply). > > Same question for Solstice DiskSuite vs VxVM. > > I will summarize. > > > -- > Christophe Dupre > System Administrator, Scientific Computation Research Center > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute > Troy, NY USA > Phone: (518) 276-2578 - Fax: (518) 276-4886 > _______________________________________________ > sunmanagers mailing list > sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org > http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers > -- Christophe Dupre System Administrator, Scientific Computation Research Center Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY USA Phone: (518) 276-2578 - Fax: (518) 276-4886 _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Jan 17 14:12:48 2002
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