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Bryan Kay Carter

Sep 3, 2010 5:37 PM

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Bryan Kay Carter

Sep 3, 2010 9:30 PM

146. Process for adding Data Store

I have an iFolder 3.7 server running on SLES 10.3 with OES 2 SP2.

It is a virtual box, and I want to add a datastore to it.

I am not familiar enough with the Linux command to do this. Could someone walk me through the process?

Also, when you add a datastore like this, what are the rules for it's use? Can I have a 50GB store, then add another 50 GB store when the first runs out of space? Is this the best practice, or is it best to maintain one larger store from the beginning?

My attempts have resulted as follows:

I add a virtual disk to the box which SLES sees as /dev/sdb

I have done fdisk and create the partition (/dev/sdb1)

I have done mkfs and created a file system (used defaults)

I have then created a folder off of the root called /ifolder1 and then mounted /dev/sdb1 to it.

That all seems to work okay,however

when I try to add another datastore to an /ifolder2 folder it seems to mess everything up. As soon as I mount /dev/sdc1 to /ifolder2, I lose everything in /ifolder1

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm not sure if I am approaching this correctly.

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Johnny Jacob

Sep 5, 2010 4:50 PM

146.1. Re: Process for adding Data Store

Can you be specific in whats happening ?

1. What gets messed up?

2. Any unusual messages in the logs?

And on how iFolder server uses datastore space : http://www.novell.com/documentation/ifolder3/ifolder38_admin/?page=/documentation/ifolder3/ifolder38_admin/data/bshahlz.html - Check '8. Configure the datastore'

Bryan Kay Carter

Sep 7, 2010 10:01 PM

146.2. Re: Process for adding Data Store

As far as "what" get's messed up:

I create a folder off the root called /iFolder.

I then mount /dev/sdb1 to /iFolder. I did this BEFORE I completed the iFolder installation, and then pointed my original datastore there. It in turn, created a SIMIAS folder underneath /IFolder.

All good so far.

I then add a virtual disk, which becomes /dev/sdc1,

then mount it to a new folder underneath ROOT as /iFolder2.

As soon as I do this, it appears that all of the simias stuff under /iFolder1 goes away. It doesn't really go away, but i can no longer see or access it unless I remove the mount fo iFloder2.

The link you suggested does not show anything about using datasource.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Bryan

Jay R Jones

Oct 15, 2010 3:39 PM

146.3. Re: Process for adding Data Store

How are you doing your mounting? I've always just gone in though Yast to do any of my mounting. We use NetApp and I have both a LUN and an NFS share that we're using for iFolder. I didn't have any issue with the mount points. I did use Yast and I did use /media so i have /media/ifolderdata and /media/ifolderdata2.

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