[Babase] Re: [Babaseannounce] Reminder: Papio Maintenance Today

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Wed Feb 13 23:25:40 EST 2008


On 02/13/2008 05:10:57 PM, Hunter Matthews wrote:
> Maintenance Complete.

On small problem.  I can no longer ssh into papio, although
I can get into neuron.

> 
> The 2 extra drives were added. A small problem is that the drives are
> 160MB/sec models, and not the 320's I would really have preferred to
> see
> - but they are the only ones I have access to at the moment AND they
> were mislabeled as 320's anyway. I will hunt around for some 320's.

That'd be good.  Thanks.

> I did encounter a problem: the arch/tla tool that you are using
> creates
> HUGE NUMBERS of files - making backups and rsyncs very slow and
> painful.

Most of them don't change, but yes, I understand the memory issue etc.

> 
> Is there any chance you could migrate to another tool, or conversely
> figure out if you can tar up old/rarely used parts of the
> repositories?

I do want to using something else, but haven't gotten around to it.
I don't think we'll be migrating any time soon, but the good news
is that we won't be developing either so nothing will change.
Which won't really help, but....  I think I've told it to make
huge numbers of files for performance reasons.  I bet I can delete
a very large number of these before I step back from babase
for a bit.


Karl <kop at meme.com>
Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
                  -- Robert A. Heinlein



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