Re: [MooseFS-Users] Is it safe to rename mountpoints in mfshdd.cfg?

[Davies L. <dav...@gm...>]

Yes, it will work.

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:04 PM, Michael Tinsay
<mic...@ho...> wrote:
> It's me again with a different question.
>
>
> Through the years one of my chunkservers have gone through several disk
> replacements, upgrades, and additions. Disks are mounted in /mnt and named
> mfshdd<seq> with <seq> being a through z, ie. mfshdda, mfshddb, and so on.
> It started out with 3 disks, mfshdd[a-c], and now it is up to the letter i.
> mfshdd.cfg now looks like:
>
>
> /mnt/mfshdda
>
> #/mnt/mfshddb
>
> /mnt/mfshddc
>
> /mnt/mfshddd
>
> #/mnt/mfshdde
>
> /mnt/mfshddf
>
> #mnt/mfshddg
>
> #mnt/mfshddh
>
> /mnt/mfshddi
>
>
> I'm toying with the idea of changing a couple of the mountpoints so that I
> have no holes in the sequence.  The steps I'm thinking of is:
>
>
> (a) stop moosefs-chunkserver
>
> (b) remount mfshddi as mfshddb, and mfshddf as mfshdde.
>
> (c) edit mfshdd.cfg to reflect this change
>
> (e) start moosefs-chunkserver
>
>
> Is this doable without losing out the chunks that are expected to be in
> mfshddf and mfshddi?  They're still there anyway, just in a different
> mountpoint.  Will they be recognized as valid chunks when the chunkserver is
> started back up and it scans the folders?
>
>
>
> --- mike t.
>
>
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 - Davies