Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 10:38:10 +1000 From: Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Cc: FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Vinum on an a running system Message-ID: <200109030038.KAA22027@tungsten.austclear.com.au> In-Reply-To: Message from Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> of "Sun, 02 Sep 2001 13:44:32 %2B0300." <20010902134432.B68136@ns2.wananchi.com>
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Hi Wash, I can provide you with a guide for doing what you want, but I strongly recommend you find another system you can "play" on for a while so that you've been through the process before you start on the production system. Note also that the information I can provide is only for doing mirroring, as I haven't played with RAID 5. Mirroring can be done in a "non-destructive" fashion, which I don't believe is true of RAID 5--I think you'll find that you need a "space" where you can dump filesystems while you build the RAID 5 partitions, and then copy it all back, which as you can imagine will get pretty ugly. Assuming you've gone through the process on a practice box, and you have a spare disk, you should be able to do a lot in six hours. I have to say, though, that your system would probably benefit a lot by having the filesystem layout "revisited". Two of the things I'd be concerned about are: it appears to have no (separate) filesystem for /tmp, which is probably why / is so large the amount of space that's being used on /var Tony -- Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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