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On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Is 'using ACLs' one of those things that if you don't know then you |
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>> are not? I just run basic Gentoo here. All installs done as per the |
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>> install guide. I don't even use LVM or anything fancy. (Which is |
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>> likely part of why I'm having to reconfigure as much as I am but so be |
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>> it.) |
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> Gentoo can potentially make use of them if you're using POSIX |
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> capabilities, but I think that has to be enabled by USE flag or |
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> FEATURE. I think you might also have to enable them in fstab (and the |
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> kernel as well, though that is likely enabled by default). Chances |
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> are you'd know if you were using them, and it would only apply to |
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> stuff installed by portage (generally binaries). Oh, and using POSIX |
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> capabilities is a good thing (less suid root binaries). |
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> One thing to mention - I'm not sure how much data you're talking |
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> about, but if it is a lot and downtime is a concern you could probably |
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> get creative and avoid some copying. You could copy the files onto an |
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> LVM vg, and then after your RAID is set up you could move the logical |
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> volume onto your RAID, which is an online operation. (Ie set up your |
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> USB drive as LVM, copy the files over, adjust your mounts so that the |
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> USB drive is mounted where you want the files, and at this point |
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> they're in production. Then get your RAID set up, add it to the |
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> volume group, and pvmove the USB drive so that it gets moved to your |
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> RAID. Then remove the USB drive from your volume group and you're in |
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> the final config, with no further need to adjust mountpoints since |
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> they're already pointed to LVM.) I've done a lot of messing around |
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> with online migrations of RAID and LVM - quite handy when you have |
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> lots of stuff like mythtv recordings that you don't want to have |
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> offline backups of. |
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> Rich |
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Interesting info Rich. Thanks. |
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Approximately 250GB involved. Not worried about downtime. The data is |
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all Windows VMs which I use for stock & futures trading. Only need the |
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machine back up by tomorrow morning. |
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Also, I've never used LVM so for an afternoon project it's unlikely |
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I'd be successful going that direction I think. The second USB backup |
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drive is about 50% done so I should be able to start working on |
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reconfiguring the RAID in about an hour and hopefully be back up and |
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running by 5PM if things go well. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |