Re: [Discuss] lvm snapshot cloning

2011-10-24 Thread markw
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:31 PM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: On Oct 23, 2011, at 7:08 PM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: The real solution, and I have code to do it, is this: create a snapshot of device A, call it foo. (arbitrary length of time passes) create a second snapshot of A, call

Re: [Discuss] Insight about LVM

2011-10-24 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 10/22/2011 08:55 AM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: I'm looking to hear from people using it, things they like, things they dislike, oddities they've encountered, etc. Only negative I've heard is: If you have a logical volume that spans multiple HDD's, and one of the disks goes bad, the file

Re: [Discuss] Insight about LVM

2011-10-24 Thread Rich Braun
David Rosenstrauch dar...@darose.net If you have a logical volume that spans multiple HDD's, and one of the disks goes bad, the file system on your LV will be corrupted/lost. (I think this is similar to RAID-0?) So, [installed] physical volumes should be redundant RAID devices themselves to

[Discuss] Do you know of a Dynamic DNS service that doesn't demand I install software?

2011-10-24 Thread Bill Horne
Thanks for reading this. I'm looking for a free dynamic dns service provider to use for a couple of days on my home server. I have a WordPress site set up, and I'd like to show it to a potential employer, but I can't find a dynamic dns provider that I can use without installing software on my

Re: [Discuss] Do you know of a Dynamic DNS service that doesn't demand I install software?

2011-10-24 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Bill Horne b...@horne.net wrote: Thanks for reading this. I'm looking for a free dynamic dns service provider to use for a couple of days on my home server. I have a WordPress site set up, and I'd like to show it to a potential employer, but I can't find a

Re: [Discuss] Do you know of a Dynamic DNS service that doesn't demand I install software?

2011-10-24 Thread Tom Metro
Bill Horne wrote: I'm looking for a free dynamic dns service provider... ...I can't find a...provider that I can use without installing software on my machine. I thought most DDNS providers supported a mode where you could register your IP using a simple HTTP request, which could always be

Re: [Discuss] lvm snapshot cloning

2011-10-24 Thread markw
On Oct 24, 2011, at 7:41 AM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: Why are you saying this? LVM is designed for much of this. The strategy described is perfectly valid within the context of read/write snapshots. That's where I say that you are mistaken, because it isn't, not really. It does a fair

[Discuss] [Fwd: Re: Re: Do you know of a Dynamic DNS service that doesn't demand I install software?]

2011-10-24 Thread markw
You're mail server bounced me, so I forwarding to BLU. Original Message Subject: Re: Re: [Discuss] Do you know of a Dynamic DNS service that doesn't demand I install software? From:ma...@mohawksoft.com Date:Mon, October 24, 2011

[Discuss] website designer

2011-10-24 Thread Eric Chadbourne
Hi, Anybody here a really good website designer or know of one? A friend of mine has a small electrical consulting business and wants his site redone. Pretty easy job. Less than 6 pages of static HTML. But it has to look great. Thanks for any tips, Eric

Re: [Discuss] Do you know of a Dynamic DNS service that doesn't demand I install software?

2011-10-24 Thread Jack Coats
My linksys router handles updating the dyndsn automatically. No extra software to install. This way when the routers IP changes, it tells dyndns and 'life happens'. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] lvm snapshot cloning

2011-10-24 Thread markw
On Oct 24, 2011, at 8:41 PM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: With snapshots, its a bad design in that all snapshots receive all COW blocks. So if you have two snapshots with the same basic content, there will be duplicative data. This means that you have to allocate enough space for the changes