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 about to fail, or whose filesystems are getting too big.
Suppose I have a bunch of disks all partitioned like this: da#s1a 768 MB ufs /boot da#s1b 1 GB swap da#s1d hammer da#s1e luks hammer. I have da0 and da1 in the server and I want to insert a disk into da2 and pull out the one in da1. Can I do this with the "hammer volume-add da2s1d; hammer volume-del da1s1d"? How long will this take? Do I run cryptsetup on da2s1e before adding the volume? Pierre -- La sal en el mar es más que en la sangre. Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.
