On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 09:16:01PM -0400, Stephen Adler wrote: > Guys, > > I'm preparing to building several multi terabyte file systems using > XFS. On the order of 5-10 terabytes. I've done a bit of searching on > the web to find out what is the customary way to check xfs file > systems. with the other file systems, you would get a forced fsck > ever N number of mounts thus repairing any "gunk" in the file > system. With XFS, no fsck is performed. fsck.xfs will return passed > and not execute. Thus one needs to run xfs_repair every now and then > I suppose. So my question is what is the customary frequency one > runs xfs_repair on their xfs file systems. Every 6 months? Do it via > a cron job every week making sure you can dismount the file system > first and then remount it when done? It's been beaten into me over > the years I've managed linux/unix systems that fscks must be done > with some kind of periodicity otherwise suffer from file corruption > due to bit decay I suppose.
I suppose the real question is, why XFS? And what kind of redundancy? I expect that most large storage systems will be rebooted extremely infrequently, and so some form of online fault detection and repair will become critical. -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
