Re: fsck on 1.5TB drive

2009-06-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
You are right Puchar, but sometimes (2 in 100 on powerfailure) the filesystem gets corrupted (database files opened, and being extended)... so when the fsck enters, the database get corrupted.. Filesystem will rather be not corrupted, but database file data. Non-journalled UFS with

fsck on 1.5TB drive

2009-06-06 Thread John Nielsen.
Hey guys... I just installed 7.2 on a 1.5TB RAID 5. I'm using about 10GB for the system and swap, and the rest for a single large partition to be used for backups. As of right now, the single partition, /bkup, is empty. When booting after an improper shutdown, the system starts the backgrounds

Re: fsck on 1.5TB drive

2009-06-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
system and swap, and the rest for a single large partition to be used for backups. As of right now, the single partition, /bkup, is empty. When booting after an improper shutdown, the system starts the backgrounds fsck as usual and on all the other partitions, seem to take the normal turn off

Re: fsck on 1.5TB drive

2009-06-06 Thread Kirk Strauser
John Nielsen. wrote: I just installed 7.2 on a 1.5TB RAID 5. I'm using about 10GB for the system and swap, and the rest for a single large partition to be used for backups. As of right now, the single partition, /bkup, is empty. Some will disagree, but this almost screams for ZFS: no fsck,

Re: fsck on 1.5TB drive

2009-06-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I just installed 7.2 on a 1.5TB RAID 5. I'm using about 10GB for the system and swap, and the rest for a single large partition to be used for backups. As of right now, the single partition, /bkup, is empty. Some will disagree, but this almost screams for ZFS: no fsck, great RAID support, and

Re: fsck on 1.5TB drive

2009-06-06 Thread Kirk Strauser
Wojciech Puchar wrote: my 6 disk system with 2 750GB disks, 2 500GB disks and 2 320GB disks does fsck in 40 minutes. if you exclude these 320GB disk containing system and squid cache (LOTS of files) it takes 5 minutes That's a great example of why I like ZFS on new installations. -- Kirk

Re: fsck on 1.5TB drive

2009-06-06 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Hello, try to use journaling on the backup partition, (if you do not want to use ZFS...) than: supose your partition is ad0s1d, this procedure will destroy ALL data on the partition!!! gjournal load gjournal label ad0s1d newfs ad0s1d.journal edit the /etc/fstab to look like:

Re: fsck on 1.5TB drive

2009-06-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
try to use journaling on the backup partition, (if you do not want to use ZFS...) is it THAT a problem to wait 5-10 minutes for fsck? on OS that really crash RARELY. Most cases not at all. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: fsck on 1.5TB drive

2009-06-06 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Em Sáb, 2009-06-06 às 23:13 +0200, Wojciech Puchar escreveu: try to use journaling on the backup partition, (if you do not want to use ZFS...) is it THAT a problem to wait 5-10 minutes for fsck? on OS that really crash RARELY. Most cases not at all. You are right Puchar, but sometimes