Re: Hammer on multiple hot-swappable disks

2011-05-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I'm thinking of founding an ISP and running it with a mix of DragonFly and :Linux boxes. My current boss showed me a rack-mountable server which he uses. :If I understood him right, it has three bays where hot-swappable SCSI drives :can be inserted. I was thinking about how to handle disks

Re: Hammer on multiple hot-swappable disks

2011-05-23 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday 23 May 2011 17:13:57 Matthew Dillon wrote: No, unfortunately there is still one sticking point preventing that from working. The volume delete code can't remove the root volume (in a multi-volume hammer mount one is designated as the root volume. In a single-volume

Re: Hammer on multiple hot-swappable disks

2011-05-23 Thread Justin Sherrill
You could stream master - slave, and then if the master fails, change the slave disk to the master. Dunno if that covers the same area for you. On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Pierre Abbat p...@phma.optus.nu wrote: On Monday 23 May 2011 17:13:57 Matthew Dillon wrote:     No, unfortunately

A noticeable improvement

2011-05-23 Thread Pierre Abbat
I compiled 2.11 on the 16th and rebooted and restarted Firefox. I keep several tabs open, one of which is a webmail site that I use for scambaiting. It used to be that every night, as the box ran its Hammer and package maintenance, a script on that page would time out and log me off. It hasn't

Re: Hammer on multiple hot-swappable disks

2011-05-23 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday 23 May 2011 22:00:50 Justin Sherrill wrote: You could stream master - slave, and then if the master fails, change the slave disk to the master. Dunno if that covers the same area for you. The filesystem spans more than one disk, and one of the disks is going bad. I'm also going to

Re: Hammer on multiple hot-swappable disks

2011-05-23 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 23 May 2011 22:49:49 -0400 Pierre Abbat p...@phma.optus.nu wrote: On Monday 23 May 2011 22:00:50 Justin Sherrill wrote: You could stream master - slave, and then if the master fails, change the slave disk to the master. Dunno if that covers the same area for you. The filesystem