Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-26 Thread Tru Huynh
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 03:07:00PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Tru Huynh t...@centos.org wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:10:58AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: If you are running CentOS-4, the last 2 kernels do not (yet) have corresponding kmod-xfs.  You need to

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-26 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Tru Huynh t...@centos.org wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 03:07:00PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: The one for the .22 centosplus kernel will be nice to have as well. Btw I have rebuild the kmod-xfs independant version for the .22 kernel (regular and

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-26 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Tru Huynh t...@centos.org wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 03:07:00PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: The one for the .22 centosplus kernel will be nice to have as well. Btw I have rebuild the kmod-xfs independant version for the .22 kernel (regular and

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-26 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Tru Huynh t...@centos.org wrote: We can push either version in the next weeks, say June 15th? to their final repositories. Does that sound good? Not quite.  That version is now obsolete -

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-26 Thread Tru Huynh
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 08:16:42AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: Here is the updated version: http://centos.toracat.org/kmods/CentOS-4/xfs/SRPMS/ Please discard the obsoleted ones (I did not bump the version/release number). Let me know when your binaries are ready for testing. rebuilds and

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-25 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Tru Huynh t...@centos.org wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:10:58AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: If you are running CentOS-4, the last 2 kernels do not (yet) have corresponding kmod-xfs.  You need to wait for CentOS devs to build those kmods or to supply a kernel

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-15 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 02:03:32PM -0700, Scott Silva wrote: on 5-14-2009 1:24 PM Pasi ??? spake the following: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 06:23:05PM +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: Thank you all for your quick answers (you guys must have started typing BEFORE I hit the Send-button). The

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-15 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: The eighties called - they want their stone-age way to handle disks back Heh. Well, if he wants them fsck'd in the first place ... ___ CentOS mailing list

[CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
Hi! I'm justing in the process of setting up a new fileserver for our company. I'm installing CentOS 5.3 (64 bit) on it. One of the problems with it is that it has a 3.5TB filesystem for the user data which I formatted during setup as an ext3. Now my experience with our current fileserver is

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 05:44:11PM +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: Hi! I'm justing in the process of setting up a new fileserver for our company. I'm installing CentOS 5.3 (64 bit) on it. One of the problems with it is that it has a 3.5TB filesystem for the user data which I formatted

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Peter Lemenkov
2009/5/14 Bernhard Gschaider bgschaid_li...@ice-sf.at: One of the problems with it is that it has a 3.5TB filesystem for the user data which I formatted during setup as an ext3. Yes, using ext3 is a real pain especially on such large partitions. I advice you to switch to XFS. -- With best

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Toby Bluhm
Bernhard Gschaider wrote: Hi! I'm justing in the process of setting up a new fileserver for our company. I'm installing CentOS 5.3 (64 bit) on it. One of the problems with it is that it has a 3.5TB filesystem for the user data which I formatted during setup as an ext3. Now my experience

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
Thank you all for your quick answers (you guys must have started typing BEFORE I hit the Send-button). The general consensus seems to be If you can start anew: use XFS. This leaves one question: as the XFS is not included in the standard-kernel which option offers the smoothest sailing

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:23, Bernhard Gschaider bgschaid_li...@ice-sf.at wrote: which option offers the smoothest sailing (especially during kernel-updates):  - kernel from centosplus  - kmod-xfs from centosplus  - kmod-xfs from extras Use kmod-xfs from extras (it should be already

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Filipe Brandenburger filbran...@gmail.com wrote: Use kmod-xfs from extras (it should be already enabled in your yum config) unless you already need the centosplus kernel for another reason. See here:

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Bernhard Gschaider bgschaid_li...@ice-sf.at wrote: One of the problems with it is that it has a 3.5TB filesystem for the user data which I formatted during setup as an ext3. An option I haven't seen suggested yet is to split this into several filesystems that

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 06:23:05PM +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: Thank you all for your quick answers (you guys must have started typing BEFORE I hit the Send-button). The general consensus seems to be If you can start anew: use XFS. This leaves one question: as the XFS is not included

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-14-2009 1:24 PM Pasi � spake the following: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 06:23:05PM +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: Thank you all for your quick answers (you guys must have started typing BEFORE I hit the Send-button). The general consensus seems to be If you can start anew: use XFS. This

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote: on 5-14-2009 1:24 PM Pasi � spake the following: It seems XFS might be added as a default to RHEL 5.4.. Probably not a default, but an option. I wonder which high-end customer *finally* drove them to do this (if, indeed,

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 14.05.2009 um 21:25 schrieb Bart Schaefer: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Bernhard Gschaider bgschaid_li...@ice-sf.at wrote: One of the problems with it is that it has a 3.5TB filesystem for the user data which I formatted during setup as an ext3. An option I haven't seen suggested

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Les Mikesell
Scott Silva wrote: on 5-14-2009 1:24 PM Pasi � spake the following: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 06:23:05PM +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: Thank you all for your quick answers (you guys must have started typing BEFORE I hit the Send-button). The general consensus seems to be If you can start

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-14-2009 2:21 PM Les Mikesell spake the following: Scott Silva wrote: on 5-14-2009 1:24 PM Pasi � spake the following: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 06:23:05PM +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: Thank you all for your quick answers (you guys must have started typing BEFORE I hit the Send-button).

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Tru Huynh
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:10:58AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: If you are running CentOS-4, the last 2 kernels do not (yet) have corresponding kmod-xfs. You need to wait for CentOS devs to build those kmods or to supply a kernel version independent kmod. I have just pushed the latest .22

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 17:21, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Is this a reasonable choice on a 32 bit machine?  I thought 4k stacks were a problem. Oh yeah, I failed to mention in my previous e-mail that all the machines I have running XFS are using x86_64 versions of CentOS. I