Re: filesystem advice

2013-05-24 Thread krad
There isnt really a thing as better, just different. WHich is best for you depends on your requirements and resources. A zfs based solution would work on that system as its just serving a few clients, and on the assumption that they arent to demanding it should run fine. Bunging in more memory if

Re: filesystem advice

2013-05-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 06:43:25PM +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi all and sorry for this (newbie) question. > > I study FreeBSD (I come from linux) and I'm not sure which filesystem use. > > My situation: install a fileserver (samba) for 3 clients and put it as > gateway/server on internet (ssh, a

Re: filesystem size does not equal free space

2012-11-21 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Rick Miller wrote: I install FreeBSD 8.3-R on a DL360 G8 with two disk volumes, the 2nd of which is 3TB. The fdisk partition editor shows the disk geometry as 812160 cyl/255 heads/32 sectors = 6627225600 sectors (3235950MB). sysinstall creates a slice on the 3TB volume that

Re: Filesystem dump incremental?

2012-05-17 Thread Matthias Petermann
Thanks Mike and Matthew, the -u switch was what I missed. It now works fine. Regards, Matthias On 17.05.2012 13:52, Mike Clarke wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2012, Matthias Petermann wrote: dump -a -1 -f /mnt/da0/backup-compaq.1.dump / Try a new full backup with dump -0aLuf /mnt/da0/back

Re: Filesystem dump incremental?

2012-05-17 Thread Mike Clarke
On Thursday 17 May 2012, Matthias Petermann wrote: > dump -a -1 -f /mnt/da0/backup-compaq.1.dump / Try a new full backup with dump -0aLuf /mnt/da0/backup-compaq.1.dump / then for the incremental use dump -1aLuf /mnt/da0/backup-compaq.1.dump / The option you're missing is "u", but "L

Re: Filesystem dump incremental?

2012-05-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 17/05/2012 12:49, Matthias Petermann wrote: > currently I am experiencing something confusing. Some hours ago I did a > level 0 dump with the following command: > > dump -a -0 -f /mnt/da0/backup-compaq.0.dump / > > This results in a quite big dump file. After changing a couple of files, >

Re: filesystem type in new installer

2011-10-02 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 3 Oct 2011, Michael wrote: What are the valid filesystem types in Partition Editor? Installer gives two examples: freebsd-ufs and freebsd-swap. I guess that I can use freebsd-zfs but what are the others? And is that list accessible from the installer itself (some kind of help system) o

Re: filesystem size after newfs

2009-08-11 Thread chris scott
2009/8/11 mojo fms > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Naeem Afzal wrote: > > > > >I created this small partition of 512K bytes on disk, I am noticing > > about 24% is used up before system can be mounted and used. My assumption > > was about 4% is supposed to be used if minfree is set to 0.

Re: filesystem size after newfs

2009-08-10 Thread mojo fms
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Naeem Afzal wrote: > >I created this small partition of 512K bytes on disk, I am noticing > about 24% is used up before system can be mounted and used. My assumption > was about 4% is supposed to be used if minfree is set to 0. > >#newfs -U -l -m 0 -n -o s

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-08 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 13:54 +0200, Olivier Mueller wrote: > -> it took about 12 hours to delete these 30GB of files and > sub-directories (smarty cache files: many small files in many dirs). Haven't you ever had the pleasure of running Sendmail on Solaris? :) Move this data store to a separate pa

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
If you aren't using ZFS, or even a GEOM volume with mirror/RAID5/softup/etc, you cannot make the statement that hardware RAID is faster. I learned that 3 years ago. i state exactly opposite. all hardware raid cards are made just to suck money from those who believe in it. like "performance

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Paul Patterson
rg; Benjamin Krueger ; Olivier Mueller ; freebsd-performa...@freebsd.org; Bill Moran Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 2:31:16 PM Subject: RE: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data > It could just be me, but I swear Hardware RAID has been faster for many > many years, especially with RAID5 arrays -

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Gary Gatten wrote: >> OT now, but in high i/o envs with high concurrency needs, RAID5 is >> still the way to go, esp if 90% of i/o is reads. Of course it depends >> on file size / type as well... Anyway, let's sum it up with "a >> storage su

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
Gary Gatten wrote: OT now, but in high i/o envs with high concurrency needs, RAID5 is still the way to go, esp if 90% of i/o is reads. Of course it depends on file size / type as well... Anyway, let's sum it up with "a storage subsystem is only as fast as its slowest link" It's not just the bal

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
yes, some of them suck royally. you should rather say "some of them doesn't suck". ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr..

RE: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
It could just be me, but I swear Hardware RAID has been faster for many many years, especially with RAID5 arrays - or anything that requires maybe with RAID5, but using RAID5 today (huge disk sizes, little sense to save on disk space) instead of RAID1/10 doesn't make much sense, as RAID5 is sl

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Gary Gatten
May 06 13:08:46 2009 Subject: RE: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data It could just be me, but I swear Hardware RAID has been faster for many many years, especially with RAID5 arrays - or anything that requires parity calcs. Most of my benchmarking was done on SCO OpenServer and Novell UnixW

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Gary Gatten" : > It could just be me, but I swear Hardware RAID has been faster for many > many years, especially with RAID5 arrays - or anything that requires > parity calcs. Most of my benchmarking was done on SCO OpenServer and > Novell UnixWare and Netware, but hardware RAID c

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Gary Gatten
sage - From: Wojciech Puchar To: Bill Moran Cc: Gary Gatten; Benjamin Krueger ; freebsd-performa...@freebsd.org ; Olivier Mueller ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed May 06 13:31:53 2009 Subject: Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data > yes, some of them suck royally. you should r

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
config, or gmirror/gstripe config. usually it's far much slower Sorry, but my experience with that very server using a P400 controller with 256MB write cache is very different. My benchmarks showed that controller using Raid5 (with only 4 disks) is significantly faster than software layouts.

RE: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Gary Gatten
It could just be me, but I swear Hardware RAID has been faster for many many years, especially with RAID5 arrays - or anything that requires parity calcs. Most of my benchmarking was done on SCO OpenServer and Novell UnixWare and Netware, but hardware RAID controllers were always faster and of cou

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Benjamin Krueger
Wojciech Puchar wrote: means you had 6 million files. df -i would have been more useful in the output above. This brings a number of questions up: * Are you _sure_ softupdates is enabled on that partition? That's he showed mount output - he has softdeps on. * Are these 7200RPM disks or

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread cpghost
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 05:34:24PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > -> it took about 12 hours to delete these 30GB of files and > > > > sub-directories (smarty cache files: many small files in many dirs). > > It's a little bit surprising, as it's on a recent HP proliant DL360 g5 > > with SAS disk

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
means you had 6 million files. df -i would have been more useful in the output above. This brings a number of questions up: * Are you _sure_ softupdates is enabled on that partition? That's he showed mount output - he has softdeps on. * Are these 7200RPM disks or 15,000? Again, going t

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
-> it took about 12 hours to delete these 30GB of files and sub-directories (smarty cache files: many small files in many dirs). It's a little bit surprising, as it's on a recent HP proliant DL360 g5 with SAS disks (Raid1) running freebsd 6.x ( /dev/da0s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) ) if

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data (4 million files)

2009-05-06 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Olivier Mueller : > > Yes, it is one of the best options. My initial goal was to delete all > files older than N days by cron (find | xargs | rm, etc.), but if each > cronjob takes 2 hours (and takes so much cpu time), it's probably not > the best way. > > I'll make some more te

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data (4 million files)

2009-05-06 Thread Olivier Mueller
Thanks for your answer Bill! (and to Will as well), Some more infos I gathered a few minutes ago: [~/templates_c]$ date; du -s -m ; date Wed May 6 13:35:15 CEST 2009 2652 . Wed May 6 13:52:36 CEST 2009 [~/templates_c]$ date ; find . | wc -l ; date Wed May 6 13:52:56 CEST 2009 30546

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Olivier Mueller : > Hello, > > $ df -m ; date ; rm -r templates_c ; df -m ; date > Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0s1a 989 45 864 5%/ > /dev/da0s1f128631 102179 1616086%/usr > [...] > Wed May 6 00:23:01 CEST 2009 >

Re: Filesystem and bigger files

2009-05-04 Thread Eygene Ryabinkin
Antonio, good day. Mon, May 04, 2009 at 12:50:59PM +0200, Antonio Tommasi wrote: > i've freebsd 7.0 in production and i've this hard-drive > > Filesystem SizeUsed AvailCapacity Mounted on > /dev/aacd0s1a 64G15G 44G 26%/ > > In a directory (spamassassin) i've

Re: filesystem compatibility between FreeBSD and OpenBSD

2009-04-30 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:11:28 -0600, Tim Judd wrote: > It's funny that OpenBSD's manpage says it uses FFS, not UFS -- when even I > thought it said UFS before I looked it up. Don't FFS and UFS refer to the same file system, the Berkeley Fast File System, also known as 4.2bsd? In my "studies" accor

Re: filesystem compatibility between FreeBSD and OpenBSD

2009-04-30 Thread Tim Judd
something I wonder about I know OpenBSD and FreeBSD both have different versions of the "UFS" filesystems (FreeBSD newfs(8) -O option, OpenBSD newfs(8) -O) has someone tried to use all combinations of all options to see if they work? It's funny that OpenBSD's manpage says it uses FFS, not UF

Re: filesystem compatibility between FreeBSD and OpenBSD

2009-04-29 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel C. Dowse wrote: > On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:36:31 -0400 > Chuck Robey wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I just put a OpenBSD partition on a EIDE disk I had laying around. I'd had >> some >> advice (apparently ba

Re: filesystem compatibility between FreeBSD and OpenBSD

2009-04-29 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:36:31 -0400 Chuck Robey wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I just put a OpenBSD partition on a EIDE disk I had laying around. I'd had > some > advice (apparently bad) that the OpenBSD UFS filesystem could provide a > filesystem that I could acce

Re: filesystem compatibility between FreeBSD and OpenBSD

2009-04-29 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:36:31 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > Is there ANY filesystem that would be a good bet, so that I could transfer > stuff > to & from FreeBSD to OpenBSD? Besides (obviously) UFS? Yes, there is, and it even isn't a file system. It's tar. You can easily create a tar archive and

Re: filesystem compatibility

2009-04-23 Thread Tim Judd
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:37:29 -0600, Tim Judd wrote: > > MS-DOS FAT32 > > Ugh. :-) > > > > > Severely limited, but that is as close to as a universal filesystem as > you > > can get. > > Among BSDs, UFS / FFS should work. To get rid of the man

Re: filesystem compatibility

2009-04-23 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:37:29 -0600, Tim Judd wrote: > MS-DOS FAT32 Ugh. :-) > Severely limited, but that is as close to as a universal filesystem as you > can get. Among BSDs, UFS / FFS should work. To get rid of the many limitations in the MS-DOS file system, tar is really the best solution.

Re: filesystem compatibility

2009-04-23 Thread Tim Judd
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Chuck Robey wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Are there any filesystems which FreeBSD has which offer compatibility to > OpenBSD? I want to add a OpenBSD partition to my long-existing FreeBSD > disk, > make it OpenBSD, but I want to be

Re: filesystem compatibility

2009-04-23 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:54:41 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Are there any filesystems which FreeBSD has which offer compatibility to > OpenBSD? I want to add a OpenBSD partition to my long-existing FreeBSD disk, > make it OpenBSD, but I want to be

Re: Filesystem tunning

2009-01-22 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 21 January 2009 08:14:49 Clifton Royston wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:01:04PM +0100, Matias Surdi wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there any way to avoid the system going to single user mode when a > > secondary storage device cannot be mounted?. > > > > I mean, if all system filesyste

Re: Filesystem tunning

2009-01-21 Thread Matias Surdi
This should work. I'll try it. Thanks for the idea 2009/1/21 Clifton Royston : > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:01:04PM +0100, Matias Surdi wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is there any way to avoid the system going to single user mode when a >> secondary storage device cannot be mounted?. >> >> I mean, if all sy

Re: Filesystem tunning

2009-01-21 Thread Clifton Royston
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:01:04PM +0100, Matias Surdi wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any way to avoid the system going to single user mode when a > secondary storage device cannot be mounted?. > > I mean, if all system filesystems are OK, how can set up a device with a > custom mount point so that

Re: Filesystem problems at boot and shutdown?

2008-11-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Nov 26 20:48:11 server kernel: ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=1364750271 Nov 26 20:48:11 server kernel: ad4: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 status=51 error=4 LBA=1364750271 Nov 26 20:48:11 server kernel: g_vfs_done():ad4s1g[WRITE(offset=682932174848, length=131072)]error

Re: Filesystem problems at boot and shutdown?

2008-11-27 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Rick Janssen wrote: >> Rick Janssen wrote: >> >>> I've been playing around with FreeBSD for some time now, still being >>> unable to solve some problems. Let me explain. >>> >>> I'm trying to run a webserver on the machine. Just basic, nothing too >>> fancy. Problem concerns the following: The

Re: Filesystem problems at boot and shutdown?

2008-11-26 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Rick Janssen wrote: > I've been playing around with FreeBSD for some time now, still being > unable to solve some problems. Let me explain. > > I'm trying to run a webserver on the machine. Just basic, nothing too > fancy. Problem concerns the following: The website served is speedy as > expected w

Re: Filesystem, RAID Question

2008-10-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: The RAID card itself may have a BBU, so during loss of power any cached data *on the card* will be attempt to be flushed to disk... except the PC (including hard disks -- unless they're powered from some other source) is already down/offline by this point. And let's not f

Re: Filesystem, RAID Question

2008-10-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:05:43PM -0500, Rich Winkel wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:33:47PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > One of the main functions of softupdates is to order disk updates in such > > > a way that the fs organizational integrity is maintained at all times. > > > > And w

Re: Filesystem, RAID Question

2008-10-30 Thread Rich Winkel
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:33:47PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > One of the main functions of softupdates is to order disk updates in such > > a way that the fs organizational integrity is maintained at all times. > > And we've recently found that this is simply not the case. The benefits > o

Re: Filesystem, RAID Question

2008-10-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 08:41:59PM -0500, Rich Winkel wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 04:38:49PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 06:12:07PM -0500, Rich Winkel wrote: > > > Doesn't hw.ata.wc affect only card-level caching? > > > > hw.ata.wc causes the ata(4) subsystem to

Re: Filesystem, RAID Question

2008-10-30 Thread Rich Winkel
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 04:38:49PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 06:12:07PM -0500, Rich Winkel wrote: > > Doesn't hw.ata.wc affect only card-level caching? > > hw.ata.wc causes the ata(4) subsystem to disable write caching on all > disks attached to the subsystem. It doe

Re: Filesystem, RAID Question

2008-10-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 04:38:49PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > ... > In this scenario, write caching on the disks is usually done by the > controller itself (through a BIOS option), and not by FreeBSD. This should have read: "... usually enabled/disabled by the controller itself". :-) Sorry

Re: Filesystem, RAID Question

2008-10-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 06:12:07PM -0500, Rich Winkel wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 07:49:00PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > Given that you don't have a BBU, what is the status of write caching > > on the individual hard drives? You'll have to use 3dm2 or the CLI > > equivalent to investiga

Re: Filesystem, RAID Question

2008-10-30 Thread Rich Winkel
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 07:49:00PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Given that you don't have a BBU, what is the status of write caching > on the individual hard drives? You'll have to use 3dm2 or the CLI > equivalent to investigate this, as the RAID controller tends to hide > that level of inform

Re: Filesystem, RAID Question

2008-10-29 Thread Josh Paetzel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Seaman wrote: > Rich Fairbanks wrote: > >> Now, this is how I set up the array. I installed the card, popped in the >> drives. The card bios found the drives and allowed me to setup in RAID 5. >> Then, FreeBSD booted and found the "disk" as da

Re: Filesystem, RAID Question

2008-10-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
Rich Fairbanks wrote: Now, this is how I set up the array. I installed the card, popped in the drives. The card bios found the drives and allowed me to setup in RAID 5. Then, FreeBSD booted and found the "disk" as da0. I want the entire array to be one big chunk of space. In other words, I don't

Re: Filesystem, RAID questions

2008-10-29 Thread Chris St Denis
At 1TB the drive will take very long to fsck if the server ever crashes or looses power. If this is a problem you should look into using gjournal(8) Not sure off hand why it would be so slow, but keep in mind raid5 isn't particularly fast for writes Rich Fairbanks wrote: Hi, I'm new to Fr

Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk?

2008-09-23 Thread Gary Newcombe
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:02:11 +0200 (CEST), Andreas Davour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Gary Newcombe wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:48:48 +0200 (CEST), Andreas Davour > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> > about tr

Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk?

2008-09-23 Thread Gary Newcombe
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:48:48 +0200 (CEST), Andreas Davour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > >> about trying to make the data as available as possible. Do anyone here > >> have > >> any suggestion about what kind of filesystem would be best to use? Can

Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk?

2008-09-23 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2008-09-23 23:13:32 UTC+0200, Laszlo Nagy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> For making backups I would probably just use FAT32 and tar, because >> practically anything (not just FreeBSD & Linux) will mount FAT32 file >> systems, and tar should respect your file attributes (owner, group, >> crea

Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk?

2008-09-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Except that you cannot create files with >4GB size on FAT32. You might be able to use an archiver that is able to split archives into smaller parts. or simply split(1) This has always been a problem. FreeBSD is open source. So Linux is, but they do not have a common filesystem that could b

Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk?

2008-09-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
mount_ext2fs is available in FreeBSD but I can't speak for its reliability. i can. it simply works. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PRO

Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk?

2008-09-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
about trying to make the data as available as possible. Do anyone here have any suggestion about what kind of filesystem would be best to use? Can ufs2 be read by linux? It looks like it from my short persual of google hits, but it also looks kind of complicated. IS ext2 a safer bet? Anything to

Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk?

2008-09-23 Thread Laszlo Nagy
For making backups I would probably just use FAT32 and tar, because practically anything (not just FreeBSD & Linux) will mount FAT32 file systems, and tar should respect your file attributes (owner, group, creation timestamp, last modified timestamp, etc). Except that you cannot create files

Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk?

2008-09-23 Thread RW
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:17:21 +0200 (CEST) Andreas Davour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've bought a usb connected disk to use as backup, and I've been > thinking about trying to make the data as available as possible. Do > anyone here have any suggestion about what kind of filesystem would >

Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk?

2008-09-23 Thread Mike Jeays
I have an EXT2 USB flash drive on a FreeBSD system, and it works perfectly. I have also used EXT2 filesystems on IDE drives in a USB caddy, and they work fine as well. On September 23, 2008 04:19:06 pm andrew clarke wrote: > On Tue 2008-09-23 17:17:21 UTC+0200, Andreas Davour ([EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk?

2008-09-23 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2008-09-23 17:17:21 UTC+0200, Andreas Davour ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've bought a usb connected disk to use as backup, and I've been > thinking about trying to make the data as available as possible. Do > anyone here have any suggestion about what kind of filesystem would be > b

RE: filesystem information

2008-07-01 Thread Bob McConnell
On Behalf Of Jim >> Just a thought, but in normal circumstances files *are* written to, >> even when they are just being read: the access time is updated (unless >> you mount the fs with the noatime flag). >> > > quite true, but isn't that file metadata and not the actual file? I > thought most f

Re: filesystem information

2008-07-01 Thread Jim
> Just a thought, but in normal circumstances files *are* written to, > even when they are just being read: the access time is updated (unless > you mount the fs with the noatime flag). > quite true, but isn't that file metadata and not the actual file? I thought most filesystems had a file-entry

Re: filesystem information

2008-07-01 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 03:12:59PM -0400, Jim typed: > > I'm aware of nothing but a UPS can completely protect me from an > outage. I was just wondering why that ONE file system was misbehaving, > and the rest are prefectly fine - which seemed odd. Additionally, why > were files that are read, but

Re: filesystem information

2008-06-30 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > If the files themselves are disappearing, then it could be the directory > > entry that's getting corrupted. > > The files are there, but their content is corrupted. Well ... that seems to contradict my theory ... > > Even if you're > > not doing it d

Re: filesystem information

2008-06-30 Thread Jim
> If the files themselves are disappearing, then it could be the directory > entry that's getting corrupted. The files are there, but their content is corrupted. > Even if you're > not doing it directly, is your mp3 software writing temp or other > status files to that directory? If you're curio

Re: filesystem information

2008-06-30 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm aware of nothing but a UPS can completely protect me from an > outage. I was just wondering why that ONE file system was misbehaving, > and the rest are prefectly fine - which seemed odd. Additionally, why > were files that are read, but not written,

Re: filesystem information

2008-06-30 Thread Jim
> In case of frequent power outages, I guess the right answer is "get a > UPS". :) Aye, I just got one. But for the longest time, it was a bit out of my price range due to other priorities. Actually, the whole model line was defective, so they are sending me a new one, and I have to wait for it to

Re: filesystem information

2008-06-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 07:05:51PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > Ans set 'hw.ata.wc="0"' in /boot/loader.conf to stop the drives from > > caching writes. > > it will GREATLY reduce write performance. not just a bit, but many times. Of course. And mounting filesystems with sync will also reduc

Re: filesystem information

2008-06-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Ans set 'hw.ata.wc="0"' in /boot/loader.conf to stop the drives from caching writes. it will GREATLY reduce write performance. not just a bit, but many times. WRT softupdates/gjournal, see below. In case of frequent power outages, I guess the right answer is "get a UPS". :) it is definitely

Re: filesystem information

2008-06-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:30:38PM -0400, Jim wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In response to Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> I have a computer that is in a situation where it is losing power > >> occasionally. All but one of the filesystems are

Re: filesystem information

2008-06-30 Thread Jim
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In response to Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I have a computer that is in a situation where it is losing power >> occasionally. All but one of the filesystems are going along fine. >> Once file system seems to lose data on a p

Re: filesystem information

2008-06-30 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have a computer that is in a situation where it is losing power > occasionally. All but one of the filesystems are going along fine. > Once file system seems to lose data on a power outage. Even if it only > reads a file, and doesn't write it, it may sti

Re: Filesystem full......

2008-04-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:10:03PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > > Leslie Jensen writes: > > > /: write failed, filesystem is full > > install: /boot/kernel/wlan_tkip.ko.symbols: No space left on device > > *** Error code 71 > > > > My question is can I get around this or have I made my / slic

Re: Filesystem full......

2008-04-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:08:39PM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > > Bill Moran skrev: > >In response to Leslie Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >>During "make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC" I get > >> > >>/: write failed, filesystem is full > >>install: /boot/kernel/wlan_tkip.ko.symbols: No s

Re: Filesystem full......

2008-04-21 Thread darren kirby
quoth the darren kirby: > quoth the Martin Tournoij: > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 05:44:43PM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > > During "make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC" I get > > > > > > /: write failed, filesystem is full > > > install: /boot/kernel/wlan_tkip.ko.symbols: No space left on device

Re: Filesystem full......

2008-04-21 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Martin Tournoij: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 05:44:43PM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > During "make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC" I get > > > > /: write failed, filesystem is full > > install: /boot/kernel/wlan_tkip.ko.symbols: No space left on device > > *** Error code 71 > > > > output

Re: Filesystem full......

2008-04-21 Thread Martin Tournoij
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 05:44:43PM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > During "make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC" I get > > /: write failed, filesystem is full > install: /boot/kernel/wlan_tkip.ko.symbols: No space left on device > *** Error code 71 > > output of df -H gives > > Filesystem Si

Re: Filesystem full......

2008-04-21 Thread Leslie Jensen
Bill Moran skrev: In response to Leslie Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: During "make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC" I get /: write failed, filesystem is full install: /boot/kernel/wlan_tkip.ko.symbols: No space left on device *** Error code 71 output of df -H gives Filesystem SizeUsed

Re: Filesystem full......

2008-04-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Leslie Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > During "make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC" I get > > /: write failed, filesystem is full > install: /boot/kernel/wlan_tkip.ko.symbols: No space left on device > *** Error code 71 > > output of df -H gives > > Filesystem SizeUsed

Re: filesystem full after many mmap/munmap cycles

2008-04-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have an app server that uses mmap a lot. After running a long batch (four hours, 5,100+ transactions), I got the message filesystem full (/usr--ufs, local, soft-updates). df -i says plenty of space. I restarted the batch process, and watched app server process carefully with fstat -p, and it

Re: filesystem types

2007-08-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I installed an amd 64 bit 6.2 freebsd with the default filesystem (on 3 drives) and my MySQL seems to have a 4Gb limit. Is there another filesystem I can select which bypasses this limit? UFS2 doesn't have 4GB limit and it's the default. i have 9GB file at present. it is mysql limit Wher

Re: filesystem types

2007-08-26 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
Jim Pazarena wrote: > I installed an amd 64 bit 6.2 freebsd with the default filesystem (on 3 > drives) > and my MySQL seems to have a 4Gb limit. Is there another filesystem I > can select > which bypasses this limit? > > Where can I read about available filesystems on FreeBSD? http://jeremy.zawo

Re: filesystem types

2007-08-26 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 09:41:35AM -0700, Jim Pazarena wrote: > I installed an amd 64 bit 6.2 freebsd with the default filesystem (on 3 > drives) > and my MySQL seems to have a 4Gb limit. Is there another filesystem I can > select > which bypasses this limit? The default filesystem in FreeBSD do

Re: Filesystem Full

2007-06-13 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Check out "df -i" Also check out "man tunefs" tunefs(8) "-m" flag. ~BAS On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 16:03 -0700, Dixit, Viraj wrote: > Folks, > > My FreeBSD 5.3 system message logs are showing me this info, > > Jun 12 14:53:48 gatekeeper kernel: pid 58059 (ftpd), uid 1049 inumber > 141313 on /u > sr

Re: Filesystem Full

2007-06-12 Thread r17fbsd
At 07:03 PM 6/12/2007, Dixit, Viraj wrote: My FreeBSD 5.3 system message logs are showing me this info, Jun 12 14:53:48 gatekeeper kernel: pid 58059 (ftpd), uid 1049 inumber 141313 on /usr: filesystem full /dev/da0s1f 7529054 7381944 -455214 107%/usr Well, df shows /usr at 107% of capac

Re: Filesystem Full

2007-06-12 Thread Daniel Marsh
On 6/13/07, Dixit, Viraj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Folks, My FreeBSD 5.3 system message logs are showing me this info, Jun 12 14:53:48 gatekeeper kernel: pid 58059 (ftpd), uid 1049 inumber 141313 on /u sr: filesystem full Jun 12 15:34:17 gatekeeper kernel: pid 60158 (ftpd), uid 1049 inumber 1

Re: Filesystem Full

2007-06-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:03:38PM -0700, Dixit, Viraj wrote: > Folks, > > My FreeBSD 5.3 system message logs are showing me this info, > > Jun 12 14:53:48 gatekeeper kernel: pid 58059 (ftpd), uid 1049 inumber > 141313 on /u > sr: filesystem full > Jun 12 15:34:17 gatekeeper kernel: pid 60158 (ft

Re: FileSystem Fix

2007-04-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/04/07, Chris Hesselrode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: mount reload of '/' failed: No such file or directory Can't stat /dev/ad6s1e: No such file or directory (6 times ... with different ending letters) How can I fix this? In the /dev there are only: ad4 ad4s1 ad

Re: FileSystem Fix

2007-04-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 12/04/07, Chris Hesselrode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My friend took out a hard disk we had in a computer, that ran an internal web server, threw it in a new box, as a secondary drive. Now that I've smacked him around a bit, and put it back in the original box, it won't boot. When doing an fsc

Re: Filesystem that both FreeBSD and OS X can read/write

2007-04-02 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007, mal content wrote: >On 02/04/07, Peter A. Giessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On 2007/04/01 23:21, bram seems to have typed: >>> If both machines are connected through a network you may also want to >>> take a look at netatalk >> >>or Samba or NFS. For my network, I mostly t

Re: Filesystem that both FreeBSD and OS X can read/write

2007-04-02 Thread mal content
On 02/04/07, Peter A. Giessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2007/04/01 23:21, bram seems to have typed: > If both machines are connected through a network you may also want to > take a look at netatalk or Samba or NFS. For my network, I mostly transfer files between my Macs (5 boxes) and FreeBS

Re: Filesystem that both FreeBSD and OS X can read/write

2007-04-02 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 2007/04/01 23:21, bram seems to have typed: > If both machines are connected through a network you may also want to > take a look at netatalk or Samba or NFS. For my network, I mostly transfer files between my Macs (5 boxes) and FreeBSD (4 boxes) boxes via sftp. It doesn't "mount" any drives

Re: Filesystem that both FreeBSD and OS X can read/write

2007-04-02 Thread Eric Crist
On Apr 1, 2007, at 9:08 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: I'd do it on the FreeBSD machine. IIRC Mac OSX did some funky stuff with the MBR / slices when formatting disks. -Garrett I just took another disk, formated with UNIX Files System on my Mac, and it mounts just fine as UFS on my FreeBSD syst

Re: Filesystem that both FreeBSD and OS X can read/write

2007-04-02 Thread bram
mal content schreef: Hello. I have a small USB hard disk enclosure and would like to start using it to transfer files between OS X and FreeBSD machines. Is there a filesystem that both OS X and FreeBSD can reliably read and write to? I've heard that OS X supports UFS, but there's no clear defin

Re: Filesystem that both FreeBSD and OS X can read/write

2007-04-01 Thread Garrett Cooper
Eric Crist wrote: On Apr 1, 2007, at 3:46 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: mal content wrote: On 01/04/07, Eric Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Apr 1, 2007, at 12:53 PM, mal content wrote: > Hello. > > I have a small USB hard disk enclosure and would like to start > using it to transfer files b

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