> > > 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.
Because a unexpected reboot will result in 5 minutes of RAID fsck and the some
60+ minutes of salvaging. And those 5 minutes aren't that bad compared to the
quite longish time you wait while the fileserver is salvaging.
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