Date   : Sun, 12 Mar 2006 19:45:08 GMT
From   : Chris Johns <chris@...>
Subject: Re: Warning: Sad case on list!

Hiya

> 1.  Larger disc partitions
> 2.  More than 8 partitions per physical drive
> 3.  More than 8 hard disc partitions available when the MDFS is running
> 4.  SCSI ID 5 & 6 available so more hard drives could be attached.

There is an upper limit on the storage space available on an MDFS tho.

The free space map is kept in RAM, and built up when the server boots.
The larger this gets, the less RAM there is for everything else, such as
the cache. There will be a point, though, at which you've run out of RAM.

I have a ~240MB drive on my MDFS which is plenty for my needs and then
some, however, it would be nice it it was just one partition, rather
than the 4 it's currently in.

All this talk of Econet has reminded me of the electron econet thing I
started, I really should attempt to finish that - it was all pretty much
okay, excpet the electron's ULI and NMIs causing problems.

Cheers

Chris
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Chris Johns <chris@...             >