Re: More On Samba And Softupdates

2010-11-22 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 11/21/2010 2:16 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com mailto:tun...@tundraware.com wrote: This drive is being used as a backup drive for all the workstations on this particular network, and reliable is much more

More On Samba And Softupdates

2010-11-21 Thread Tim Daneliuk
The other day I mentioned I had a problem with a Samba-shared drive that was just installed blowing up. When I rebuilt it, I forgot to enable softupdates but the drive seems to be working flawlessly. I understand it is possible to do this after-the-fact with tunefs. Some questions: Do I

Re: More On Samba And Softupdates

2010-11-21 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.comwrote: This drive is being used as a backup drive for all the workstations on this particular network, and reliable is much more important than slightly faster. As someone already said, SU is probably not the culprit here.

Re: More On Samba And Softupdates

2010-11-21 Thread Michael Powell
Tim Daneliuk wrote: The other day I mentioned I had a problem with a Samba-shared drive that was just installed blowing up. When I rebuilt it, I forgot to enable softupdates but the drive seems to be working flawlessly. I understand it is possible to do this after-the-fact with tunefs.

Re: More On Samba And Softupdates

2010-11-21 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: Although from what you describe my choice for the drive would be gjournal + UFS. If you've got a lot of asynchronous IO that's a better solution. Instead of asynchronous, I meant multi-threaded. gjournal + UFS