Re: [9fans] Subject: Venti, redundancy, and hardware failure.

2008-08-03 Thread Steve Simon
> But suppose you are asking "I changed the disk > device name in venti.conf. What else do I > need to do for that to take effect?" > The answer is nothing:... having been in this situation, here is what I have planned to do - but still havent got around to yet ... I am going to make two new

Re: [9fans] Subject: Venti, redundancy, and hardware failure.

2008-08-03 Thread Russ Cox
> occurred to me that, although I know how to mirror my arenas, I'm not > clear on how to recover from hardware failure. That is, suppose sdD0 > and sdD1 are dedicated to arenas, they are mirrored, and venti.conf > has something like 'arenas /dev/fs/arenas'. Now suppose sdD0 goes > belly up. Do

[9fans] Subject: Venti, redundancy, and hardware failure.

2008-08-02 Thread Gregory Pavelcak
Sorry if this is a repost, but I haven't seen it show up on groups, so I think I'm OK. I recently asked about mirroring venti arenas and was told that mirroring is generally a good idea. It occurred to me that, although I know how to mirror my arenas, I'm not clear on how to recover from hardware