Steven Jenkins wrote: > > > On 6/28/07, *Steve Devine* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > wrote: > > Steven Jenkins wrote: > > > > > > On 6/28/07, *Steve Devine* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>> > > wrote: > > > > We have switched some of our servers over to binaries compiled > > with fast > > restart. > > > > > > > > Others may disagree, but my opinion is that Fast Restart is not yet > > ready for production use. Testing is always helpful, though. > Man I'm sorry to hear that .. we used this because we wanted to > shorten > the down time for bringing a server back on line when it has 1.2 > possible disk space. That a long salvage window but maybe it would > have > been worth it. > > > I was talking about something else not being ready for production, not > Fast Restart (which is fine for production). My apologies. > > Fast Restart can shorten your startup times, but it leaves the System > Administrator to do the salvaging. Were I to use Fast Restart, I would > > - parse the output of FileLog after startup (or vos listvol vs vos > listvldb output) to get a list of volumes to salvage manually, > - possibly prioritize those (eg, bring RW's online first, not RO's > that have good copies elsewhere, etc) > - manually salvage them > > I'd have that in a script to be run after a restart. > > The benefit of Fast Restart is that even if you have a lot of volumes > that need to be salvaged, the fileserver can be serving other volumes > while you manually salvage the rest. Keep in mind that you'll have to > salvage those one at a time or bos will shut the fileserver down. If > you have to salvage a lot of volumes, Fast Restart will actually slow > down your recovery time, so you'll want to consider that trade-off. > (ie, you can't salvage in parallel while the fileserver is running) > > Steven > Well from what I can see I am not sure I can count on the FileLog. Is there anyway to make the fileserver keep more than FileLog and FileLog.old ? /sd
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