[lug] OT: Veritas volume mgr and fs

[Nate Duehr]

He's talking about the volume manager, not the backup software... two
different products (kinda - integration is pretty tight on newer
versions).

We use it at the shop I'm at.  It's very nice for the on-the-fly volume
resizing and features you mentioned, but probably takes a performance
hit doing some of it.

However, when the object is uptime and not raw filesystem performance,
dynamically resizing a full filesystem is much cleaner than finding more
disk space, if the partitioning scheme isn't matching where developers
are putting data.  (Of course the follow-up e-mails are interesting!)

On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 08:26, Ken Weinert wrote:
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> I've not had personal experience with it here, but I talked with a couple of 
> the admins and there are two things to note:
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> 1) we are using it for backups
> 2) we'd like to move away from it if we could find something better
> 
> I'm not sure exactly how to interpret that last remark, but perhaps if you're 
> interested and they're willing I could put you in touch with them via email 
> to ask a more specific question or two.
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> On Friday 17 May 2002 8:20, you wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Does anyone have any experience with the Veritas volume manager or file
> > system? 
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