Re: nebie with volumes and best practices with /var/lib/riak data directory

2012-12-12 Thread Sean Carey
Hey David, My comments are inline. On Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at 3:38 AM, David Montgomery wrote: > Thanks.,that helps... > > So..what happens if I have in existing path on a smaller drive and I attach > a new volume and switch? - Stop riak. - Copy the data out. - Mount the new v

Re: nebie with volumes and best practices with /var/lib/riak data directory

2012-12-12 Thread David Montgomery
Thanks.,that helps... So..what happens if I have in existing path on a smaller drive and I attach a new volume and switch? In essence looking for best practice on how ot handle this. Is it better to do a rolling upgrade where I start new machines fresh with 1T then remove the smaller nodes 1 by

Re: nebie with volumes and best practices with /var/lib/riak data directory

2012-12-11 Thread Sean Carey
Hey David, You are correct. You can do 1 of two things here: 1) Mount your 1TB volume to /var/lib/riak. All ring, and backend data will be stored there. 2) Mount your volume somewhere like /data/riak and switch the platform_data_dir config option to reflect that mounted path. If you wan

nebie with volumes and best practices with /var/lib/riak data directory

2012-12-11 Thread David Montgomery
Hi, I use datapipe for by cloud provider. An I am rather new from a sysadmin perspective of having to attach volumes. I am using ubuntu 12.04 64. So...now that I can attach a 1T volume on machine bootby question is this. When I mount the new volume.should I mount /var/lib/riak? I see