Re: UFS filesystem size limit

2005-09-06 Thread David Cuthbert
Chris Csanady wrote: I've watched ReiserFS crash and burn in horribly bad ways that the resulting fsck upon reboot took a long weekend to complete. Was this on an ATA disc by chance? I imagine that this sort of file system would be extremely fragile with write caching. That aside, I don't

Re: UFS filesystem size limit

2005-09-04 Thread David Cuthbert
walt wrote: Are you counting a crash as a form of 'reboot'? I can certainly understand why a busy kernel developer might want to speed up something he does many time a day -- but most sysadmins probably never want to reboot... Heh... a crash is not only a form but probably the form of reboot

Re: UFS filesystem size limit

2005-09-03 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:46:57AM +0200, Michel Talon wrote: As far as recovery after a crash is involved, clearly nothing beats journalling, and i have to say that performancewise, i have the impression that Linux journalled filesystems do *very* well compared to FreeBSD, or at least

Re: UFS filesystem size limit

2005-09-03 Thread Andreas Hauser
joerg wrote @ Sat, 3 Sep 2005 14:09:39 +0200: On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:46:57AM +0200, Michel Talon wrote: As far as recovery after a crash is involved, clearly nothing beats journalling, and i have to say that performancewise, i have the impression that Linux journalled filesystems do

Re: UFS filesystem size limit

2005-09-03 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 04:13:52PM -, Andreas Hauser wrote: joerg wrote @ Sat, 3 Sep 2005 14:09:39 +0200: Don't compare experimental filesystems with UFS :-) While not having as much testing behind them as UFS, at least on Linux, they aren't experimental filesystems anymore. I was

Re: UFS filesystem size limit

2005-09-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
:While not having as much testing behind them as UFS, at least on Linux, :they aren't experimental filesystems anymore. : : But seriously, the : structure of JFS and XFS is very different from UFS, e.g. the use of : btrees for almost anything. That makes them more suitable for some : operations,

Re: UFS filesystem size limit

2005-09-03 Thread walt
Matthew Dillon wrote: A friend of mine swears by linux, but curses just about every filesystem he tries (and curses UFS as well). I'll have my wife call his wife -- they'll modify that behavior quickly! There are two things I want for UFS: (1) Nearly instant reboots

Re: UFS filesystem size limit

2005-09-03 Thread Hiten Pandya
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:46:57AM +0200, Michel Talon wrote: As far as recovery after a crash is involved, clearly nothing beats journalling, and i have to say that performancewise, i have the impression that Linux journalled filesystems do *very* well compared to

UFS filesystem size limit

2005-09-02 Thread Dave Hayes
For reference, I'm using: # uname -sv DragonFly DragonFly 1.3-Preview #0: Fri Jul 8 14:09:49 CEST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC I have created a vinum partition that is 1.12 terabytes. As some of you may expect, /sbin/newfs is not happy with this size (# sectors in

Re: UFS filesystem size limit

2005-09-02 Thread Hiten Pandya
Dave Hayes wrote: For reference, I'm using: # uname -sv DragonFly DragonFly 1.3-Preview #0: Fri Jul 8 14:09:49 CEST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC I have created a vinum partition that is 1.12 terabytes. As some of you may expect, /sbin/newfs is not happy with this