On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 08:52:25PM -0700, Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 05:02:36PM -0500, Scott Lambert wrote: > [SNIP] > > I want to configure a metapartition-default on a new > > RAID1 and move the metadata to it. I haven't been able to find > > documentation that says if it is safe to add the metapartition > > directives to the config for an existing partition on a running > > system. > > > > What would be the proceedure for this? Something like?: > > > > * rsync the metapartition_files to the new metapartition-default > > * shut down cyrus-imapd > > * rsync the metapartition_files to the new metapartition-default > > * change the imapd.conf > > * remove the metapartition_files from partition-default > > * start cyrus-imapd > > > > I would like to do it without stopping cyrus-imapd, but I suspect > > that changing it on a running system was not planned for in the > > feature. I would be most happy to be wrong. > > You'll find you are definitely right. You'll have to shut it down. > > You can make it a lot shorter by moving the 'start cyrus-imapd' > before the 'remove the metapartition_files from partition-default' > step. Cyrus won't mind about the spare files being there. Okay, I was worried that it might confuse things, particularly me, having the files in both locations. > But doing it on the fly - ouch. Definitely not designed for. > It probably wouldn't be a massively hard problem to solve, but > it's such a rare case that nobody much cares enough to make it > work. That makes sense. Thanks for all the work you've put into Cyrus, Bron, and Ken and everybody. -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin lambert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
