Re: 4TB filesystem
On Aug 6, 2006, at 11:51 PM, Igor Robul wrote: On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 08:35:31PM +0100, Martin Hepworth wrote: Softupdates removes the issue if havinh to fsck filesystems after and unclean umount. Background fsck does not work well with big filesystems, it can literaly make server useless for long period of time, sometimes I just boot server in single user mode and do fsck -y because while it means downtime, but after this downtime server will work ... while background fsck eats all server memory and most of CPU. I'm very happy, that I dont need do this often :-) If I remember the postings or news from a while back right, someone is porting ZFS from OpenSolaris to FreeBSD(?). I will be glad when this happens. I have been playing with ZFS on a Solaris machine and it is majorly cool. Goodbye fsck and Hello ease of use and performance. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/intro/ Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4TB filesystem
OK I stand corrected... softupdates reduces the possibility of having to fsck a filesystem ;-) -- Martin On 8/5/06, Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05/08/06, Martin Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Softupdates removes the issue if havinh to fsck filesystems after and unclean umount. No it doesn't. Absolutely not. After an unclean shutdown fsck runs in the background. And sometimes it can't do that. Here's an example: Jul 23 17:54:01 zoe fsck: /dev/amrd0s1g: CANNOT CREATE SNAPSHOT /d1/.snap/fsck_snapshot: File too large Jul 23 17:54:01 zoe fsck: Jul 23 17:54:01 zoe fsck: /dev/amrd0s1g: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. The /etc/defaults/rc.conf file has a comment on this too: background_fsck=YES # Attempt to run fsck in the background where possible. Frem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4TB filesystem
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 08:35:31PM +0100, Martin Hepworth wrote: Softupdates removes the issue if havinh to fsck filesystems after and unclean umount. Background fsck does not work well with big filesystems, it can literaly make server useless for long period of time, sometimes I just boot server in single user mode and do fsck -y because while it means downtime, but after this downtime server will work ... while background fsck eats all server memory and most of CPU. I'm very happy, that I dont need do this often :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4TB filesystem
Softupdates removes the issue if havinh to fsck filesystems after and unclean umount. On 8/3/06, N. Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Lutz Rabing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, is someone still working on the bigdisk project? it becomes more an more easy to create disk arrays bigger than 2TB ... it would be a really nice to have feature. lutz Nice to have, but I wouldn't want to fsck it! :) Nicole ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Large Print Giveth And The Small Print Taketh Away -- Anon __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4TB filesystem
On 05/08/06, Martin Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Softupdates removes the issue if havinh to fsck filesystems after and unclean umount. No it doesn't. Absolutely not. After an unclean shutdown fsck runs in the background. And sometimes it can't do that. Here's an example: Jul 23 17:54:01 zoe fsck: /dev/amrd0s1g: CANNOT CREATE SNAPSHOT /d1/.snap/fsck_snapshot: File too large Jul 23 17:54:01 zoe fsck: Jul 23 17:54:01 zoe fsck: /dev/amrd0s1g: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. The /etc/defaults/rc.conf file has a comment on this too: background_fsck=YES # Attempt to run fsck in the background where possible. Frem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
4TB filesystem
hi all, is someone still working on the bigdisk project? it becomes more an more easy to create disk arrays bigger than 2TB ... it would be a really nice to have feature. lutz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4TB filesystem
--- Lutz Rabing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, is someone still working on the bigdisk project? it becomes more an more easy to create disk arrays bigger than 2TB ... it would be a really nice to have feature. lutz Nice to have, but I wouldn't want to fsck it! :) Nicole ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Large Print Giveth And The Small Print Taketh Away -- Anon __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
