[daip] Re: AIPS disks

[Eric Greisen]

George Martin writes:
 > Eric,
 > 
 > We want to upgrade about a half dozen of the scientific staff computer
 > systems to a faster system. The old systems have several small SCSI
 > disks. The new systems have one large, 160 GB SATA disk.
 > 
 > My question is where a system has two data disks e.g. /home/aakash and
 > /home/aakash2 each with an AIPS directory, would it be better from
 > the AIPS point of view to carve out two data partitions on the new
 > disk to mirror the old setup? Or does AIPS have a utility that could
 > combine /home/aakash/AIPS and /home/aakash2/AIPS.
 > 
 > I lean to the two partition scheme because of other possible file or
 > directory name conflicts.

One does not have to make fixed partitions but one does have to keep
the 2 directories as 2 - there will be numerous name conflicts and the
users may be using the "disk" number for data management purposes.

Eric Greisen