[olug] Fibre Channel on Linux

[Bill Brush]

Andrew Embury <drazak at ingenii.com> wrote on 08/25/2004 10:39:45 AM:

>
> The thing that appeals to me is they let me grow my disk usage as my
> application needs grow.

One of the big benefits of the SAN.

> For example, I can start out with 300GB, and add
> GB as my application grows.  Would this mean I would format a 300GB
> filesystem to begin with?

You could certainly do that.  Or you could reserve some space for later.

>How would one expand the FS as additional disk
> is purcahsed?
>

I'm not sure how much support for dynamic expansion of disk sizes the
current Linux file system options have, but *Nix is made to handle this
sort of thing fairly easily.  Instead of expanding a partition after the
disk size increases you could simply make an additional partition with a
mount point wherever you want in the original file system.  There are
probably limits to the number of times you can do this, but this would be
an easy solution.


> Thanks for your time.
>
No problem.

Bill