Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-26 Thread Tru Huynh
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 08:16:42AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > Here is the updated version: > > http://centos.toracat.org/kmods/CentOS-4/xfs/SRPMS/ > > Please discard the obsoleted ones (I did not bump the version/release > number). Let me know when your binaries are ready for testing. > rebuild

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-26 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Tru Huynh wrote: >> We can push either version in the next weeks, say June 15th? >> to their final repositories. Does that sound good? > > Not quite.  That version is now obsolete - lacking a required > Requir

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-26 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Tru Huynh wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 03:07:00PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> The one for the .22 centosplus kernel will be nice to have as well. > Btw I have rebuild the kmod-xfs independant version for the .22 kernel > (regular > and centosplus). I am not

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-26 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Tru Huynh wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 03:07:00PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> The one for the .22 centosplus kernel will be nice to have as well. > Btw I have rebuild the kmod-xfs independant version for the .22 kernel > (regular > and centosplus). I am not

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-26 Thread Tru Huynh
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 03:07:00PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Tru Huynh wrote: > > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:10:58AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > >> If you are running CentOS-4, the last 2 kernels do not (yet) have > >> corresponding kmod-xfs.  You need to wait for

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-25 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Tru Huynh wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:10:58AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> If you are running CentOS-4, the last 2 kernels do not (yet) have >> corresponding kmod-xfs.  You need to wait for CentOS devs to build >> those kmods or to supply a kernel version in

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-15 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > The eighties called - they want their stone-age way to handle disks > back Heh. Well, if he wants them fsck'd in the first place ... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.c

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-15 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 02:03:32PM -0700, Scott Silva wrote: > on 5-14-2009 1:24 PM Pasi ??? spake the following: > > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 06:23:05PM +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: > >> Thank you all for your quick answers (you guys must have started > >> typing BEFORE I hit the Send-button).

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 17:21, Les Mikesell wrote: > Is this a reasonable choice on a 32 bit machine?  I thought 4k stacks > were a problem. Oh yeah, I failed to mention in my previous e-mail that all the machines I have running XFS are using x86_64 versions of CentOS. I don't know if the 4k sta

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Tru Huynh
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:10:58AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > If you are running CentOS-4, the last 2 kernels do not (yet) have > corresponding kmod-xfs. You need to wait for CentOS devs to build > those kmods or to supply a kernel version independent kmod. I have just pushed the latest .22 kerne

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-14-2009 2:21 PM Les Mikesell spake the following: > Scott Silva wrote: >> on 5-14-2009 1:24 PM Pasi � spake the following: >>> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 06:23:05PM +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: Thank you all for your quick answers (you guys must have started typing BEFORE I hit the

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Les Mikesell
Scott Silva wrote: > on 5-14-2009 1:24 PM Pasi � spake the following: >> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 06:23:05PM +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: >>> Thank you all for your quick answers (you guys must have started >>> typing BEFORE I hit the Send-button). >>> >>> The general consensus seems to be "If y

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 14.05.2009 um 21:25 schrieb Bart Schaefer: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Bernhard Gschaider > wrote: >> >> One of the "problems" with it is that it has a 3.5TB filesystem for >> the user data which I formatted during setup as an ext3. > > An option I haven't seen suggested yet For a r

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Scott Silva wrote: > on 5-14-2009 1:24 PM Pasi � spake the following: >> >> It seems XFS might be added as a default to RHEL 5.4.. >> > Probably not a default, but an option. I wonder which high-end customer *finally* drove them to do this (if, indeed, they are go

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-14-2009 1:24 PM Pasi � spake the following: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 06:23:05PM +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: >> Thank you all for your quick answers (you guys must have started >> typing BEFORE I hit the Send-button). >> >> The general consensus seems to be "If you can start anew: use >>

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 06:23:05PM +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: > > Thank you all for your quick answers (you guys must have started > typing BEFORE I hit the Send-button). > > The general consensus seems to be "If you can start anew: use > XFS". This leaves one question: as the XFS is not in

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: > > One of the "problems" with it is that it has a 3.5TB filesystem for > the user data which I formatted during setup as an ext3. An option I haven't seen suggested yet is to split this into several filesystems that can be fsck'd in para

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Use kmod-xfs from extras (it should be already enabled in your yum > config) unless you already need the centosplus kernel for another > reason. > > See here: > http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CentOSPlus#line-7

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:23, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: > which option offers the "smoothest sailing" > (especially during kernel-updates): > >  - kernel from centosplus >  - kmod-xfs from centosplus >  - kmod-xfs from extras Use kmod-xfs from extras (it should be already enabled in your yu

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
Thank you all for your quick answers (you guys must have started typing BEFORE I hit the Send-button). The general consensus seems to be "If you can start anew: use XFS". This leaves one question: as the XFS is not included in the standard-kernel which option offers the "smoothest sailing" (espec

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Toby Bluhm
Bernhard Gschaider wrote: > Hi! > > I'm justing in the process of setting up a new fileserver for our > company. I'm installing CentOS 5.3 (64 bit) on it. > > One of the "problems" with it is that it has a 3.5TB filesystem for > the user data which I formatted during setup as an ext3. Now my > ex

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Peter Lemenkov
2009/5/14 Bernhard Gschaider : > One of the "problems" with it is that it has a 3.5TB filesystem for > the user data which I formatted during setup as an ext3. Yes, using ext3 is a real pain especially on such large partitions. I advice you to switch to XFS. -- With best regards! __

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 05:44:11PM +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: > > Hi! > > I'm justing in the process of setting up a new fileserver for our > company. I'm installing CentOS 5.3 (64 bit) on it. > > One of the "problems" with it is that it has a 3.5TB filesystem for > the user data which I f

[CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
Hi! I'm justing in the process of setting up a new fileserver for our company. I'm installing CentOS 5.3 (64 bit) on it. One of the "problems" with it is that it has a 3.5TB filesystem for the user data which I formatted during setup as an ext3. Now my experience with our current fileserver is t