[Voyage-linux] Working with AUFS

[dju]

Hello 

 the easy way
 in the file /etc/init.d/voyage-util

 modify 
echo -n "Remounting / as read-only ... "
/usr/local/sbin/remountro

 by
echo -n "Remounting / as read-write ... "
/usr/local/sbin/remountrw

--
 dju

 
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 09:46:38 -0000, "Robert Rawlins"
<robert.rawlins at thinkbluemedia.co.uk> said:
> Morning guys,
> 
>  
> 
> We're currently working with Voyage 5x which seems to work quite nicely
> for
> us, however I can see some upcoming benefits of us using the new 6x
> release
> and I wanted to try and clear up a few questions about the new file
> system
> which is implemented on the new release.
> 
>  
> 
> In our application for Voyage we use MySQL to collect data, this is then
> written to the disk and must remain there after a reboot. At the moment
> we've always taken care of this by using the WIKI document found here
> http://wiki.voyage.hk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=remove_ro which is an anything
> but ideal situation but has always worked well for us.
> 
>  
> 
> Now, I assume that with this new move to AUFS it's about time we started
> doing things properly. At the moment I understand next to nothing about
> AUFS
> and how it works but I'm hoping we'll be able to configure it for our
> needs.
> 
>  
> 
> If you guys had data you needed to persist on the disk regardless of a
> reboot or power loss how would you go about it? I know we've talked in
> the
> past about having a secondary scratch partition on the disk which we use,
> is
> this still our best option? Or does AUFS give us some better
> configuration
> options to set some space aside on the same partition as the OS?
> 
>  
> 
> Aside from the MySQL database which we need to persist I also have a
> bunch
> of log files and some XML configuration files generated by our
> application
> which we need to keep permanently, other than that most changes can be
> lost.
> 
>  
> 
> I'm looking for a solution which is easy to implement and also simple to
> replicate so we can duplicate the cards quickly.
> 
>  
> 
> Many thanks guys, I appreciate any pointers.
> 
>  
> 
> Robert
>