X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 176ED9DCCD0; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:29:26 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 05071-05; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:29:27 -0400 (AST) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A4509DCCCB; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:29:23 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 475AD26F64C; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:29:23 -0400 (AST) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 05583-07; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:29:24 -0400 (AST) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-222-82-85.eastlink.ca [24.222.82.85]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 512F226EBDA; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:29:20 -0400 (AST) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 88A6136250; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:29:24 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83ADB35979; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:29:24 -0400 (AST) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:29:24 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" X-X-Sender: scrappy@ganymede.hub.org To: Dave Page cc: "Marc G. Fournier" , Magnus Hagander , pgsql-www@postgresql.org, "Gavin M. Roy" Subject: Re: svr2/unionfs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20051129212555.M1077@ganymede.hub.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.558 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.558] X-Spam-Score: 0.558 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200511/194 X-Sequence-Number: 8909 On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Dave Page wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:scrappy@postgresql.org] >> Sent: 29 November 2005 16:48 >> To: Dave Page >> Cc: Magnus Hagander; Marc G. Fournier; pgsql-www@postgresql.org >> Subject: RE: svr2/unionfs >> >> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Dave Page wrote: >> >>> Hmm, that's a good point. Marc; any idea how long the >> downtime is likely >>> to be? I'm not sure what the best way to redirect the >> clients will be >>> unless we temporarily write a static version of the few >> hundred or so >>> mirror selection pages. >> >> So, why not just create a second wwwmaster, that is >> templateless ... we'll >> call it wwwmaster2.postgresql.org for testing purposes ... >> then, once we >> know its all working, we shutdown the old and restart the new was >> wwwmaster? > > That's a good idea, except it'll take a fair bit of setup I imagine. Can > we just copy svr2 over a copy of the template and bring that up as > wwwmaster2 for testing? I don't think we need to worry about cleanly > installing the VM at this stage, just eliminating the unionfs. If we're just going to do that, then it does make it alot simplier ... but don't worry about the wwwmaster2 stage, since you aren't changing anything, you are just merging the file systems. cd