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From: "Brian L. Stuart" <blstuart@bellsouth.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:53:06 +0000
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Subject: [9fans] Mirrorarenas in p9p
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I'm running a p9p venti server under Linux using several
(small by current standards) physical drives as my arena
pool.  I got a 500GB external USB drive to use as a backup
of the arenas.  But here's the gotcha.  The number of blocks
per cylinder on the 500GB drive isn't the same as the other
smaller drives.  So, I can't create a partition that's exactly
the same size as one of the smaller drives, which means that
the last arena is a different size when I format it.  mirrorarenas
complains about that and considers it fatal.  I modified
it so that if the destination arena is bigger than the source,
it's just a warning and not fatal and it's happily mirroring
as we speak.  But I've got a couple of questions:
- Is this going to cause any problems?
- Is there a better way to handle this?

Thanks,
BLS