Re: Building Big Ass Linux Machine, what are the limits?

Theo Van Dinter (felicity@kluge.net)
Thu, 01 Oct 1998 10:14:40 -0400


| more along the lines of the same disk. The NetAPP box allows you to set
| a quota for snapshot - so, in an example configuration - a 40 GIG filer
| would have 2 GIG reserved for snapshots.

yes and no. you can set a "maximum" size for snapshots, but in reality, the box just overflows the provided space (and starts taking up "storage" space). kind of annoying when getting close to a release, and the snapshots overflow once every 12 hours ... <grrrr>

I've had to write a small script that runs via cron to delete old snapshots after the snapshot usage goes over 100% ... 8(

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