Wednesday, March 18, 2009

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No More Network Video! Please

We have managed to secure device (/dev/sda1 10GB:/srv) to keep some movies and a basic image of Debian Stable (lenny) for bootstrapping Xen instances of domU.

The deployment target is (/dev/sdc1 10GB:/home) where the disk is ext3 with reasonable permissions, and the space has been liberated from network video users.

Our system has a dangerous (/dev/md0 446GB:/) that is probably pretty safe formatted as XFS, with something like 100GB free thanks to a lost 100GB filesystem that was hosting a system running Ubuntu.

So, we ought not count on that 446GB! Instead, find a way to utilize that 100GB such that it can be "snapped" and utilized en-masse by another system, like the 120GB guest OS living on my VMware Infrastructure disk.

When we have another system somewhere with 500GB that we can trust, until then, scripted deployment is king and federated virtualization is a pipe dream that we need not realize now or in the near future.

There is no need to copy hundreds of gigabytes! Your application is insignificant.