Mark
I guess I have to experience the rough to appreciate the smooth! Thanks
for pointing out storage options, I'll update my configs to use them.
Steve
>
> Steve,
>
> not to belittle your efforts, but you should definitely use storage
> promises to simplify this.
>
> M
>
> Steve Barnes wrote:
>> Sean
>>
>> Here's a little something I finally got working at 2am last night. It
>> ensures an slist of specific mount points always have the noatime flag
>> (purely data folders in my case). If changes are made to the /etc/fstab
>> file, a remount of the affected partitions is performed.
>>
>> Hopefully this can provide you with a basis to implement your specific
>> requirements :)
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> PS, I'm new to CFEngine; feedback is always appreciated!
>>
>> ---
>>
>> bundle agent fb_fstab
>> {
>> vars:
>>
>> # our list of partitions to add the noatime flag to.
>> "noatime_partitions" slist => {"/data1","/data2"};
>>
>> classes:
>>
>> # only for specific hosts that match this regex pattern.
>> "do_it" or => { classmatch("qp.*"), classmatch("cr.*") };
>>
>> files:
>>
>> do_it::
>>
>> "/etc/fstab"
>>
>> edit_line =>
>> add_noatime_flag("noatime","4","$(noatime_partitions)"),
>> classes => if_repaired("fstab_updated");
>>
>> commands:
>>
>> # if fstab was updated, we need to perform a remount of the
>> affected
>> partitions.
>> fstab_updated::
>>
>> "/bin/mount -oremount" args => "$(noatime_partitions)";
>> }
>>
>> bundle edit_line add_noatime_flag(flag,field_num,partition)
>> {
>> field_edits:
>>
>> "LABEL=$(partition).*"
>>
>> edit_field =>
>> col("[\s]+","$(field_num)","$(flag)","append");
>> }
>>
>> ---
>>
>>> In the cfengine v2 reference the mountall directive is defined thus:
>>>
>>> mountall
>>> mounts all filesystems defined in the hosts filesystem table. This
>>> causes new NFS filesystems added by addmounts and mailcheck to be
>>> actually mounted. This should probably be called both before mountinfo
>>> and after addmounts etc. A short timeout is placed on this operation
>>> to avoid hanging RPC connections when parsing NFS mounted file
>>> systems.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to simply make sure that what is in /etc/fstab stays
>>> mounted properly? I don't want to use addmounts to manage /etc/fstab.
>>> We prefer to keep this file updated by hand.
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