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- From: keith@novell.COM (Keith Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Subject: Re: Re-partitioning Novell volumes
- Keywords: Re-partitioning Volumes
- Message-ID: <keith.18.0@novell.COM>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 01:16:24 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.161009.1146175@zeus.calpoly.edu> <1992Aug13.031751.123120@zeus.calpoly.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug13.031751.123120@zeus.calpoly.edu> glporter@zeus.calpoly.edu (Glen Porter) writes:
- >
- >Also, From what a Novell Educator friend of mine says . . . there is no
- >advantage in having a second volume for MACintosh, since its name space
- >can be loaded along side the existing name space on the DOS partition.
- >This is a great advantage since you no longer have to worry about which
- >volume to give what space to. (not Necc true if you need NFS name space,BTW)
-
- I'm not entirely sure what you are saying here but I am reasonably sure
- that it is wrong! There is really no difference between the Macintosh
- name space and the NFS name space apart from the obvious one (one holds
- the Mac finder information for a file and the other holds UNIX inode
- information). The various "Name Spaces" on a volume actually live in
- the directory entry area. When you add a name space to a volume, you
- are actually causing each file and directory on the volume to burn up
- additional directory entries for holding the new information in. In the
- case of NFS, we burn an extra one directory entry unless a UNIX filename
- goes over 40 characters in length in which case we start burning a second
- directory entry (and if the filename goes over 152 characters, a third).
- The Mac guys burn a whole directory entry just keeping their ICON so they
- always use at least 2 (and only 2 I believe?). You might have gathered
- by now that directory entries are 128 bytes in size.
-
- There are several very good reasons for having at least two volumes on
- a NetWare 3.11 server. Perhaps the best one is that if, god forbid, your
- server should Abend on you, because your users were clowning around on
- a volume other than SYS: it means SYS: is unlikely to be damaged to the
- point of being unmountable. This means you won't be at the mercy of
- what you remembered to put on your DOS partition to get things going
- again.
-
- Also, SYS: contains lots of files that are of no relevance to Macs
- or UNIX systems. All the files in SYS:PUBLIC for example. Adding the
- Mac and NFS namespace to SYS: means those files will be burning additional
- directory entries on the volume for no good purpose. If you want to
- integrate Macs and Suns, you may aswell do it on a volume that mostly
- contains files that will be used by Macs and Suns.
-
-
- Keith
- -
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