From: Derek Vadala <derek@cynicism.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Growing an Array?
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:41:14 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021111184114.7BBDB3B807@jaded.cynicism.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aqot4v$os5$1@cesium.transmeta.com>
On 11 Nov 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Note that in large-scale data moves, like this, where you're reluctant
> to take the system offline: if you can put the new storage online
> (connected either to the same or a different server) you run the copy
> process while the data is still online, then when you close for the
> migration you can do an incremental update (rsync -aHS --delete is
> good for this; if you want to be extra paranoid at the expense of
> significantly slower execution rsync -acHS --delete.) This is
> typically a lot quicker than copying all the data once offline.
This is exactly what I meant, sorry if I implied otherwise.
--
Derek Vadala, derek@cynicism.com, http://www.cynicism.com/~derek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-11 18:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-06 17:25 Growing an Array? Huntress Gary B NPRI
2002-11-06 17:35 ` Derek Vadala
2002-11-11 18:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-11-11 18:41 ` Derek Vadala [this message]
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2002-11-06 17:08 Huntress Gary B NPRI
2002-11-06 17:17 ` Derek Vadala
2002-11-06 15:26 Huntress Gary B NPRI
2002-11-06 16:56 ` Derek Vadala
2002-11-06 14:46 Huntress Gary B NPRI
2002-11-06 15:12 ` Alistair Riddell
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