Re: Resize HAMMER filesystem

2013-05-03 Thread Alex Burke
Hi Matt, Hope you will forgive a potentially silly question, but how do you perceive the relationship between HAMMER1 and HAMMER2 in the future? Will the second incarnation entirely supersede and replace the original? At the point at which HAMMER2 is released, is it your intention that people aut

Re: Fwd: Resize HAMMER filesystem

2013-05-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
HAMMER1 has a number of deficiencies in this area. It is possible to add additional block devices to a HAMMER1 filesystem but it's never been well tested and I don't recommend it. HAMMER1's best feature is mirror-copy and mirror-stream. There are deficiencies here as well, pa

Re: Fwd: Resize HAMMER filesystem

2013-05-03 Thread Chris Turner
On 05/03/13 04:26, Charles Rapenne wrote: What is my best option to increase the size of the hammer partition ? Do I need to create another "partition" with disklabel and add a new hammer filesystem to the actual to extend it ? (this sound a bit odd to me). Unless you are using a mirror-copy

Re: Fwd: Resize HAMMER filesystem

2013-05-03 Thread Charles Rapenne
I succeeded installing DragonFly BSD on a OVH (www.ovh.com) Kimsufi server, I become concrete now. Now, I have a 2047 M partition, fdisk output this : dragon# fdisk *** Working on device /dev/da0 *** parameters extracted from device are: cylinders=60563 heads=256 sectors/track=63 (16128 b

Re: Fwd: Resize HAMMER filesystem

2013-05-03 Thread Francis GUDIN
Le 02-05-2013, Charles Rapenne a écrit : > Let imagine you have dragonfly installed on a 250 Gb disk, and you > want to move it to a 500 Gb disk without reinstalling, how could you > dump your existing disk and grow the HAMMER partition ? > > I need this to install the system from a virtual machin

Re: Disk corruption

2013-05-03 Thread Pierre Abbat
I think I figured out what's happening, though not how it started. The new disk has a hosed file called BA6A74AF4F8A7. The old disk has three files with that name, in two different sizes. Postfix moves files around, putting them in one directory when it's trying to deliver them and in another wh

Re: Disk corruption

2013-05-03 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, April 29, 2013 22:13:45 Pierre Abbat wrote: > I think I've figured out what happened. I'll have to replace one of the > disks. > > ad0 is an IDE drive with a 60 GB disk; 53 GB is the root Hammer volume > (including /var, /tmp, /usr, and /home), and the rest is /boot, swap, and an > unus