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From: Jon Peatfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 28 March 2008 00:40
To: Bly, MJ (Martin)
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: fsck.ext3 on large file systems?
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At least one pass of the ext3 fsck involves checking every
inode table
entry so '-T
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Michael Hannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings. We have a lately had a lot of trouble with relatively large
(order of 1TB) file systems mounted on RAID 5 or RAID 6 volumes. The
file systems in question are based on ext3.
In a typical scenario, we have
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Michael Hannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings. We have a lately had a lot of trouble with relatively large
(order of 1TB) file systems mounted on RAID 5 or RAID 6 volumes. The
file systems in question are
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 06:56:17AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Michael Hannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings. We have a lately had a lot of trouble with relatively large
(order of 1TB) file systems mounted on RAID 5 or RAID 6 volumes. The
file
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 05:06:53PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
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Hmm, we successfully fsck'd ext3 filesystems 1.4 TB in size frequently a
couple of years ago, under 2.4 (back then, it was SuSE 8.2 + a vanilla
kernel). This took no more
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Michael Hannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 05:06:53PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
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Hmm, we successfully fsck'd ext3 filesystems 1.4 TB in size frequently a
couple of
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Bly, MJ (Martin) wrote:
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On our hardware RAID arrays (3ware, Areca, Infortrend) with many (12/14)
SATA disks, 500/750GB each, we fsck 2TB+ ext3 filesystems (as
infrequently as possible!) and it takes ~2 hours each. We have some
5.5TB arrays that take less than three
Michael Hannon wrote:
Greetings. We have a lately had a lot of trouble with relatively large
(order of 1TB) file systems mounted on RAID 5 or RAID 6 volumes. The
file systems in question are based on ext3.
In a typical scenario, we have a drive go bad in a RAID array. We then
remove it from
