On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 16:51, Kevin Anderson wrote: > Agreed. I didn't trust hot swap HDDs either for a LONG time. Personally, > my advice would be that if it can be done afterhours, or while the FS is > unused, then do it then. If that isn't a viable option, then, well...it's > not working now, what are you going to do, break it?
That's the direction I was leaning too, but their main concern was customer data loss due to a lack of disk space. The decision was made to make the change immediately, so I did, and all worked out well I'm happy to say. I reached a compromise with them that I could at least take the mysql server offline while I made the changes, extended the volume, resized the file system (reiserfs) to the new volume size, and put the mysql server back online. All was completed in less that 2 minutes, and no reported data loss as yet (fingers crossed, knocking on wood). > > Make sure you have a good backup. Had several! > > Perhaps if it's EXT2/3 you could change the reserverd blocks to 1% rather > than the default of 5%. I've never tried it, but if you could do this on > the fly; and I'm not sure that you could; it would give you some extra > writable space without really making major changes to the FS. I'd get > someone else's opinion on this before trying it though. No happily it was reiserfs, and resized with no problem. With ext2 you have to have the ext2online patch installed to make the changes live. > > Speaking of File Systems, will Reiser be incorporated into the 2.6 Kernel? > > Kev. > Not sure there. -- Neil Jolly (with Yoda-like voice) "Confrontation leads to anger... Anger leads to fear... Fear leads to using Windows NT in mission-critical combat systems... And this is how the ancients fell...
