[SAC] [OSGeo] #1940: osgeo4 raid needs a replacement

[Alex Mandel]

On 06/14/2017 04:09 AM, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> On Tue, 13. Jun 2017 at 22:08:25 -0700, Alex Mandel wrote:
>> OSGeo3 which contains Downloads has a space issue, but that's actually
>> just a disk allocation issue, it has more space. But nothing new should
>> go on that machine it's just as old.
> 
> So it's just still a matter of access?  Expanding a lv and growing a fs should
> be a matter of minutes - although making the expanded lv known to the vm
> without a reboot might be an issue.
> 
Yes, access. And you are correct there is no way to tell the guest OS to
grow the / partition without it being offline. The most often used trick
is to boot the VM with a live distro and do an ext grow operation.

> 
>> FYI, adding a replacement disk the last time caused significant downtime to
>> rebuild the raid (days).
> 
> Usually you would just pull the disk and put in a new one - without any
> downtime.  At least the rebuild should run in background.  Anyone recall why it
> had to run in foreground with everying offline the last time?
> 
> 
>> qgis contains their bug tracker which if I recall the qgis PSC has been
>> debating the future of.
> 
> We moved redmine to a non-osgeo machine.  The VM now is only hosting the
> website with documentation and downloads.  It's also behind cloudflare.  But
> disk space is also an issue there too.
> 
> Building of website and documentation has been moved of the VM and is rsynced
> back from another non-osgeo machine to the VM.
> 

If that's the case and you just have static assets, then please go ahead
and start migrating the qgis VM content to OSGeo6.

> 
> Jürgen
> 
>
Thanks,
Alex