Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 23:39:06 +0300 From: Dimitar Vasilev <dimitar.vassilev@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> Subject: Re: cvsup, mirrors and data integrity Message-ID: <59adc1a0510221339w6746ef3cn@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420510221319m7c592b2w1309899263df8f97@mail.gmail.com> References: <cb5206420510220209m3a66e91eqf7496476b6a6e044@mail.gmail.com> <59adc1a0510220607r384e0260s@mail.gmail.com> <cb5206420510220616t60cf59jf6ffd012eda11876@mail.gmail.com> <59adc1a0510220633s8579e06q@mail.gmail.com> <cb5206420510220648p51909022pe713892185afdcc2@mail.gmail.com> <59adc1a0510220958lade5845m@mail.gmail.com> <cb5206420510221319m7c592b2w1309899263df8f97@mail.gmail.com>
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> I don't like the style of djb, sorry. I know, but his tools work and are great for such things. There have been occasions on which the bgp "blinks"/ntpd decides to go play and after a while the box goes disfunct and I have to start/stop manually. > The box has 1 ide and 4 scsi disks. But I had to > remove scsi cables and can't find a replacement > at the moment, so it's on ide for now. > > Squid is also on the server. So I guess, when > scsi disks are back online, I'll dedicate 2 to > squid, and 2 in a vinum mirroring array with > softupdates disabled for more important > things, like cvs repos, distfiles, etc. > Try setting up a md through which to buffer the read/write operations for cvsupd For CVS there is a hint in the hubs article /dev/da0s1b /anoncvstmp mfs rw,-s=786432,-b=4096,-f=512,-i=560,-c=3,-m=0,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /etc/inetd.conf cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/cvs cvs -f -l -R -T /anoncvstmp --allow-root=/home/ncvs pserver I suppose if you play a bit, you can come with a similar solution for CVSUP. Btw, have you extended an existing stripe with growfs? I have to extend my stripe on which ftp+rsync repo lies with 0,5TB and would like to preserve data if possible. All the best -- Димитър Василев Dimitar Vassilev GnuPG key ID: 0x4B8DB525 Keyserver: pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint: D88A 3B92 DED5 917E 341E D62F 8C51 5FC4 4B8D B525
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