Re: [BackupPC-users] WARNING regarding using solaris with UFS as your backuppc server

2007-03-21 Thread Dan Pritts
> I had about 250GB of real files (over 400GB in the virtual pool). I never had > any disk corruption. In my case it didn't show up until i had about 4T in the virtual pool, with about 350GB of real files. I also noticed somewhere along the line that i had LOTS of identical small files from som

Re: [BackupPC-users] WARNING regarding using solaris with UFS as your backuppc server

2007-03-21 Thread backuppc
In the message dated: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:09:49 EDT, The pithy ruminations from Dan Pritts on <[BackupPC-users] WARNING regarding using solaris with UFS as your backuppc ser ver> were: => Hi all - => => I've been running solaris 10 as my backuppc server for quite a while => now. I ran BackupPC

Re: [BackupPC-users] WARNING regarding using solaris with UFS as your backuppc server

2007-03-20 Thread jonathan
> I'd blame my hardware if i hadn't had similar experiences several years > ago (on solaris) with an application that was written to use flat files > as a "database". > > the filesystem just didn't like lots and lots of small files and the > system panicked every few weeks, and fsck took FOREVER.

[BackupPC-users] WARNING regarding using solaris with UFS as your backuppc server

2007-03-20 Thread Dan Pritts
Hi all - I've been running solaris 10 as my backuppc server for quite a while now. It mostly has worked fine. However, recently, I have frequently been bitten by solaris UFS filesystem bugs; the filesystem becomes corrupted for no good reason. I'd blame my hardware if i hadn't had similar exper