Formating a volume

Poll: Are you confident enough with your RDBMS cookbook of choice to
format a volume as part of a recipe?


Lee Azzarello
drop.io staff hacker

I've been LVM striping + formatting xfs quite happily. Just finished some
autoscalable nfs+ebs work too! Nothing to do with rdbms though. :slight_smile:

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AJ

On Jun 15, 2010 8:19 AM, "Lee Azzarello" lee@dropio.com wrote:

Poll: Are you confident enough with your RDBMS cookbook of choice to
format a volume as part of a recipe?

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Lee Azzarello
drop.io staff hacker

Thanks for the info. I am more interested in the RDBMS use case.
Scarce, persistant data that is "mission critical". I just formatted a
500GB EBS volume with ext3 and it took about 30 minutes. That's the
kind of task I'd rather do interactively. How does XFS performance for
bringing a new volume online effect the chef-client run time?

-lee

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 4:36 PM, AJ Christensen aj@junglist.gen.nz wrote:

I've been LVM striping + formatting xfs quite happily. Just finished some
autoscalable nfs+ebs work too! Nothing to do with rdbms though. :slight_smile:

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AJ

On Jun 15, 2010 8:19 AM, "Lee Azzarello" lee@dropio.com wrote:

Poll: Are you confident enough with your RDBMS cookbook of choice to
format a volume as part of a recipe?

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Lee Azzarello
drop.io staff hacker

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Lee Azzarello
drop.io staff hacker

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Lee Azzarello lee@dropio.com wrote:

Thanks for the info. I am more interested in the RDBMS use case.
Scarce, persistant data that is "mission critical". I just formatted a
500GB EBS volume with ext3 and it took about 30 minutes. That's the
kind of task I'd rather do interactively. How does XFS performance for
bringing a new volume online effect the chef-client run time?

A lot.

I just formatted a 1TB EBS with XFS in < 30 seconds.

Adam

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