Hello,
I have setup a DFSR namespace with 4 servers and roughly 2.5 TB of data and a 10Gb link between the servers. For the most part it is running well, pre-production, I was getting a lot of alerts on the staging area so I bumped that up and moved it to a dedicated drive. No more alerts, however it brought up a bunch of questions I was hoping someone could help me sort out.
1. I read best practice on staging size and how to determine so I set my staging space up to 32GB. In your opinion is that too large? Do files replicate prior to the staging space being full or only once the staging space fills up? It seems like it replicates all the time so is there any harm in making it larger?
2. Reason I ask #1 is because I am finding my primary server to have upwards of 20,000 files in the staging space and not going down to 0 even though these servers are not doing anything at the moment. I tried forcing replication as well. However, it seems like everything is in sync and if I add a file or delete a file the replication appears to happen very quickly onto the other servers. So what do I do about these 20k+ files?
Thanks in advance
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