Hi Randy,
I am not sure of Tru64 specifically, but "generally" speaking most operating
systems have the issue when there are "millions and millions" of files that
they have to handle.
It has to do with walking the filesystem to get to whatever file you have to
backup. (Meaning it isnt necessarily a Legato issue). I know some O/S do it
better that others (I wont start a Mikkersoft badgering spree here) but most
of them have some "limit".
I have found before on a Microsoft OS we had between 100K and 200K no of
files in a single directory structure and it "fell over" / took forever /
gave erros etc etc. On a similar spec Unix (solaris 8) machine the limit was
considerably higher ... but there still was a limit.
Now as so many other people will tell you your spec machine, and setup and
configuration will certainly improve or degrade those figures... which we
all know, but I will think that generally speaking you will still hit some
limit where your O/S starts suffering with the number of files in a single
directory or in a saveset.
Regards,
Riaan
-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Doering [mailto:rdoering AT COMCAST DOT NET]
Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 6:01 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Tru64 AdvFS File Domain Panic + NetWorker
As a follow-up, I tried to start a full backup of this recovered file
system this morning, and received another AdvFS panic. This time the
networker s/w stayed around after the reboots :)
There are millions and millions of files on the file system. Is there
any know problem with Legato and a very large number of files in a
saveset?
Thanks,
Randy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Legato NetWorker discussion
[mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
> On Behalf Of Randy Doering
> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 6:54 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] Tru64 AdvFS File Domain Panic + NetWorker
>
> Greetings,
>
> We a Cluster of AlphaServer ES45 - Tru64 V5.1B + NetWorker
7.1-1.
>
> On Friday evening, I had a Full BU scheduled for a File System,
at
> 8:00 PM, and it kicked off as it was supposed to. At 8:04:56, we had
an
> AdvFS Domain Panic. This was noticed Saturday morning, and I stopped
the
> Production application.
>
> I am working with HP to try and post-mortem figure out what
could
> have happened. The coinsidence of Networker kicking in and then having
the
> file system crash, leads me to think of Networker being the cause of
the
> file system crash, or a victim.
>
> I was able to get the file system going again after rebooting
the 2
> nodes. But after the reboots, the NetWorker files in
/usr/opt/networker
> were all deleted. I had to "setld -d" the NGTO subsets, then reinstall
> with
> the "setld -l ." command.
>
> Has anyone seen anything similar?
>
> Thanks,
> Randy
>
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