Veritas Volume Manager and Solaris 8 disk space problem

From: Pere Blay (pere.blay@uv.es)
Date: Mon Aug 21 2006 - 10:49:33 EDT


Hi,

This is my system (output from 'uname'):

SunOS milkyway 5.8 Generic_117350-38 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-880

I have Veritas Volume Manager 3.2 to manage my filesystems. We have added a
Sun StorEdge 3510 very recently with 6x300Gb disks in a RAID_5 configuration.
>From them, then, only 5 become available as available storage space and an
effective space of around 250Gb per disk is achieved. In total, thus, i
should have close to 1.2Tb of storage space available.

I was told that Solaris 8 has a limit on 1.5 Tb for the size of a file system.
Then i was thinking that i'm still in the safe side.

When i import, encapsulate, and so on, the new SE 3510 disk into Veritas
Volume Manager, it reports that the available storage space is only 704Gb.
Where did the other 500Gb go? (private region created by Veritas takes only
256 Mb of space). Is there some incompatibility with the combination
V880+Veritas 3.2+SE 3510 with a file sistem as big as 1.2 Tb? Any hints/test
which can help?

Thanks a lot,
Pere

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