Hi,
It's me about the mirrors again.
Now that Linux 2.4.1 is out, with supposedly good LVM and ResierFS
support, I think we should upgrade our server to run it. Then we'll be
able to straighten out the mirrors situation.
Right now we don't mirror GNU; we don't mirror any Debian
architectures besides i386 (which is one of the reasons for us not
being able to get official mirror status); we don't mirror much of the
Red Hat archive (including the beta section, which may interest many
people, and other sections as well); we don't mirror Mandrake-devel;
and we're slowly running out of diskspace despite all that.
With 2.4.1, we'll be able to take the new disks (for which I hope the
kind Aduva offer still stands), create an LVM volume on them, format
it with ReiserFS, copy the current mirror to it, and then add the old
disks to the volume to regain that space too.
We won't have RAID 5 in that case, but I think we can manage without
RAID 5, because the data on the mirrors is not very important
(i.e. it's not original data, and can be re-created in the worst
case). LVM should allow us to take a disk out of the volume without
destroying the filesystem, which is what we'll do if a disk starts
failing. (If the disk is totally dead it will be more problematic;
perhaps we should test it somehow?)
To summarize, the order of actions is thus:
OmerM or someone else -- update the box to 2.4.1; for that you'd
probably need new modutils,
We all (I can be the broker) -- contact Aduva and get the disks to our
hands,
Someone in close proximity to the server (Guy?) -- get there, install
the new disks, and do the copy procedure.
Is there interest?
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