Re: 4TB filesystem

2006-08-06 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
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 usel

Re: 4TB filesystem

2006-08-06 Thread Igor Robul
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

Re: 4TB filesystem

2006-08-06 Thread Martin Hepworth
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 >

Re: 4TB filesystem

2006-08-05 Thread Freminlins
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 1

Re: 4TB filesystem

2006-08-05 Thread Martin Hepworth
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 d

Re: 4TB filesystem

2006-08-02 Thread N. Harrington
--- 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! :)