[p4] How well does perforce handle the disk being full?

[Robert Cowham]

In principle I agree - you should always have sufficient disk space to have
second server able to run on the same machine.

This allows for a variety of scenarios:

- test upgrade on the live server of db.* files
- shorten time to copy files (can take o(hours) to copy 100+Gb db.* files on
a not so fast server)

I would tend to set up filesystems such that db.* and the versioned files
are on different systems, but that each system allows duplicates on your
main server (SAN architectures can make a difference)

Robert

> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com 
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of 
> Fredric.Fredriksson at mydata.se
> Sent: 11 September 2007 17:37
> To: perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] How well does perforce handle the disk being full?
> 
> I apologize for this half baked entry. I decided that it did 
> not add much to the conversation and tried to discard it but 
> I must have hit the send button by mistake.
> /Fredric Fredricson
> 
> > I hava a policy to never use more than 45% of available 
> disk space on 
> > the server.
> > This way I can copy (backup) the entire depot if there is a problem 
> > and I want to be able to fiddle around. (this has yet to happen, 
> > though).