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 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 spans mo

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

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 wrote: > On Monday 23 May 2011 17:13:57 Matthew Dillon wrote: >>     No, unfortunately there is still one

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-volum

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 tha

Hammer on multiple hot-swappable disks

2011-05-21 Thread Pierre Abbat
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 that are