Re: [9fans] Petabytes on a budget: JBODs + Linux + JFS

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> So what about having venti on an AoE device, and fossil on a local drive
> (say an ssd even)?

sure.  we keep the cache on the coraid sr1521 as well.

> How would you handle (or: how would venti handle), a
> resize of the AoE device?

that would depend on the device structure of ken's fs.
as long as you don't use the pseudo-worm device, it wouldn't
care.  the worm would simply grow.  if you use the pseudo-worm
device (f), changing the size of the device would fail since
the written bitmap is at a fixed offset from the end of the
device.  and if you try to read an unwritten block, the f
panics the file server.  i stopped using the f device.

- erik