Quoting terry mccoy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > The only drawback I saw to the approach
> > is the time it takes to fsck and salvage a partition of this size if
> > things go south.
>
> We use small partitions 8GB (2 x 4.2GB) for the reason explained above
> so that in the event of a crash we can come back on-line quicker.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the positive effect of having a
"journaled" filesystem (as in AIX) on fsck time (as in reducing it to
zero). Since this is becoming an ever-larger problem as disk size
increases and disk cost decreases, I would think that journaled
filesystems would be becoming non-optional.
-Rick (of the big email backlog)
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