Re: Problem creating 6TB partition...
On Sat, 5 May 2007, Alex Samad wrote: any advantage to splitting it up into say 3 x 2 and splitting the load between 3 partitions seems a multi day fsck is a bit price to pay ? the software doesn't support doing that though -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem creating 6TB partition...
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Alex Samad wrote: if its not too rude to ask, what do you guys have on these large partitions ? Alex This one is the data store for backuppc.. backing up a bunch of workstations and servers. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem creating 6TB partition...
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Daniel Schröter wrote: ext3 has the same "problem": http://ukai.org/b/log/debian/snapshot/fsck_completed_but-2005-09-04-15-00.html Sounds atypical to me, as it used to take around an hour or two to fsck the same 4 TB partition before I changed over to XFS. It's been a couple days now for the XFS, and probably another two weeks left. I've ordered another 4 GB of memory for the system, so it'll have 5 GB to work with soon. Mike
Re: Problem creating 6TB partition...
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: Generally, IMHO no. A fsck will cost a lot of time with all filesystems. Some worse than others though.. looks like this 4tb is going to take 3 weeks.. it took about 3-4 hours on ext3.. If i had a couple gig of ram to put in the server that'd probably help though, as it's constantly swapping out a few meg a second. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem creating 6TB partition...
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: Is it an exponential growth in the amount of time it takes? I've had some XFS partitions that were several hundred GBs (but not close to 1TB) and those seemed to pass the fsck stage very quickly. If i remember right, it's 1 gb of memory per TB of space, plus additional memory overhead for X number of inodes.. i have both a large filesystem and millions of hardlinks, so lots of inodes. Mike
Re: Problem creating 6TB partition...
Last time i used EXT3 for an 2TB volume, everythings fine but i need to disable the filesystem checks with tune2fs, because it needs too much time for an check :-). I´m not felling really good about that, is there a better solution? Keep in mind if you go with XFS, you're going to need 10-15 gig of memory or swap space to fsck 6tb.. it needs about 9 gig to xfs_check, and 3 gig to xfs_repair a 4tb array on one of my systems.. oh, and a couple days to do either. :) Mike
