It might take days to drain a data server. Depending on the length of
the maintainance intervention I wouldn't suggest to drain. You can leave
with unavailable data if you put the site in downtime to alert shifters
that there might be problems.
cheers
alessandra
On 15/03/2011 11:49, Santanu Das wrote:
> What actually happens we drain the pool node?
>
> -Santanu
>
>
> On 15/03/2011 11:39, Sam Skipsey wrote:
>> What do you mean by "without disturbing the entire storage system"?
>> Marking the filesystems on it disabled and then turning it off will
>> work - but obviously, the files present on it will be inaccessible.
>> You'd have to drain it to avoid that, though ;)
>>
>> Sam
>>
>> On 15 March 2011 11:35, Santanu Das<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> Greetings experts,
>>>
>>> What's the best why to take individual disk-server down (for
>>> maintenance
>>> etc.) without disturbing the entire storage system? Any suggestion(s)?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Santanu
>>>
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