I'm running a p9p venti server under Linux using several (small by current standards) physical drives as my arena pool. I got a 500GB external USB drive to use as a backup of the arenas. But here's the gotcha. The number of blocks per cylinder on the 500GB drive isn't the same as the other smaller drives. So, I can't create a partition that's exactly the same size as one of the smaller drives, which means that the last arena is a different size when I format it. mirrorarenas complains about that and considers it fatal. I modified it so that if the destination arena is bigger than the source, it's just a warning and not fatal and it's happily mirroring as we speak. But I've got a couple of questions: - Is this going to cause any problems? - Is there a better way to handle this?
Thanks, BLS
