> Since there's been not too much input on this one, I suppose > the users don't have much objection to databases in AFS as long > as they work. > > Furthermore, since we've spent a greal deal of time to make it > work that way, and since our databases are 500 MB in total, > we are going tol go that way and test-drive the whole idea. > > We will fsync or re-start mysql/postgres every day to trigger data > write to disks, and save database dumps to respective users' > AFS volumes, in case of any problems.. > >
I have no problem with much of anything for the new setup, as long as it works. :) However, maybe we could think of a contingency plan in case we find out that it isn't working shortly after we are up and running in the new setup? I was thinking that if the AFS is on the RAID 10 stripe on deleuze, is there still some space on the RAID 1 stripe? This was 36 GB, if I remember correctly and I'm not sure if you incorporated the extra space into the AFS volume or not. Perhaps this would be a good "fallback" place for the databases in case AFS doesn't work as planned? You mentioned that our current databases are approx. 500mb, so this might be a good option. Justin _______________________________________________ HCoop-SysAdmin mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-sysadmin
