-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Gavin Panella wrote: > On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 13:56:53 +0100 > Jonathan Lange wrote: > >> > Is moving 300GB of data around in a single day going to cause any >> > issues for backups? IS might be surprised :) >> >> The idea would be to 'mv' the files, keeping them all on the same >> partition. This won't require moving the actual data, just inodes. > > If they're doing block-level backups then I suppose it won't make much > difference, but a file-level backup would see 300GB of changes, unless > it's clever. >
Oh yeah, good call. I'll add a note about that to the page. > I think I was thinking: doing stuff in the database has fewer moving > parts, and might be easier to write reliable tests for. > I agree. I'd prefer it to be an atomic operation too. jml -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Use GnuPG with Firefox : http://getfiregpg.org (Version: 0.7.8) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJKfD1uAAoJEKoj7DwqcnmX0vYIAMYXCa1LVgjGZyCABSGhwiuZ HfvIy/FyJtASIy1H2NRebut/uiXl+t+Hizyrbfk9Q613MEUy1jKlxm89y5n3hjqn UnFEzZhl6VX/Iu7AwomTUbFifoWZ6pled/FwZWDabqS3eswSftOkNYDMQZ+F1x4u q4UohMrTpoOApl6MiZw//DiLMUo6vMrF5tjK/MTDHFaQWOvJOClIsLFZLeF0x6v1 /4CGxQx6H+C0+PAXA2T6Ix+bvu3IgaCp19n7Ulmak9+V1+ajp0yNVY4zeG5vUkiK D8F+KLz/I30BD6UyjRdnhUjTWc56TkaiaRA1Ry0egD6JLujI8guNIHjaGNSU7HA= =twrC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
