On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Mike Heisler wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 27 Jan 1996, Rainer Toebbicke wrote:
> > Rainer -
> >
> > Basically RAID works fine, but journalled file systems don't for the
> > reason you mention above.
>
> By "don't" work I assume you mean for high availablity.?
No, by "don't work" I mean that if you reboot the system the system will
go out and fsck all the journalled file systems - thereby negating a lot
of the purpose of having the journalled file systems.
> > > I spoke to
Transarc about this a while ago -
> > we did try doing it, and the journalled file systems seem to be just fine
> > for normal running, but as you say, if you reboot the system it fsck's
> > all the journalled file systems.
>
> We run AIX file servers that use a journalled file system. You really
> do want it to fsck the systems. We spent many months chasing what
> we thought were salvage problems that were really lower level disk problems
> that fsck needed to fix.
>
> We recently installed AFS 3.4 and while we were down we fsck'd the disks.
> A few of them had fsck problems even though we went down "clean".
> (BTW we have 3 servers with 29/19/18GB)
> We then forced a salvage and about half of them had salvage problems.
>
> --
> Mike Heisler 607-255-7344 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Materials Science Ctr. 302 Thurston Hall Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY 14853-1503
> The "horizon effect": every time one problem is solved,
> another more complicated one arises
>
>
Steve Hanson - FERMILAB, Batavia, Il.
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