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From: poulton@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Ken Poulton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: SNAKE CLUSTER(?)
Message-ID: <63300029@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 6 Jun 91 08:54:37 GMT
References: <1991Apr15.204425.8682@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
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> In our case, we happen to have an application that can manage its own
> disk, so we have to have two disks on every machine that want to be
> able to use it in this mode.  Since buying two disks for each
> workstation is not necessarily feasible, partitions would come in
> handy.

I believe that on one s300/400 (and I assume 700) disk you can
have 1) a file system, 2) swap space, 3) raw space.  The norm
is to choose the file system size with newfs(1m) and swap fills the
rest, but I think you can configure your kernel to say how much to use
for swap; the rest is available as "raw disk". 


Ken Poulton
poulton@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com