Davor, I'm sorry that I didn't respond earlier. I did not see your response to Mr. Hutzelman's email. I thought that after Mr. Hutzelman wrote the following to the list it was rather clear that we should avoid the approach you're suggesting (of putting database files on AFS filesystems):
"Even without the potential locking problems and performance penalties, running a database server or other long-running service backed by data stored in AFS (or any non-local filesystem) is fraught with peril. Such a service, running on a perfectly working machine, can unexpectedly lose access to its data due to network problems, a fileserver outage, or even simple things like loss of tokens. This is not something I would recommend for a production service." Based on the above, it seems that for such a critical service we would do well to set things up more reliably (perhaps on a separate ext3 filesystem). Other opinions? Justin Davor Ocelic wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:42:34 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I never heard what the conclusion was about the problems mentioned on >> the list re: running postgres and (most likely mysql) on an AFS >> filesystem. I assumed that because there were problems mentioned we >> would go to something like running these packages off of an ext3 >> filesystem, which would require reformatting the /data partition of >> > deleuze. > >> Sorry I didn't mention this earlier, but I wanted to make sure that we >> took care of this issue before migrations kept us locked into our >> current configuration. >> >> Thanks! >> > > Hey, > > Well, to my conclusion, we go with it. Did you get that reply to my > long-ago-sent email about it on the openafs-info list? (And cc-ed our > sysadmin list). The one from Jeffrey T. Hutzelman I mean. > > I think we > will do just fine with going with it and keeping > backups of course, just in case. > > Enjoy, > -doc > > _______________________________________________ > HCoop-SysAdmin mailing list > HCoop-SysAdmin@hcoop.net > http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-sysadmin > _______________________________________________ HCoop-SysAdmin mailing list HCoop-SysAdmin@hcoop.net http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-sysadmin
