yes, corruption can happen silently in the background! regular fsck can
catch these while they are correctable or before they cause any major loss.
ext3 and xfs have no mechanism for online fault correction to detect silent
corruption. ZFS has this mechanism but I don't believe many people are
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Stephen Joyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For anything approaching 1TB or larger, consider xfs over ext3. Fsck'ing a
large ext3 filesystem takes ages.
Why would you ever need to fsck a ext3 volume? I suspect that a full
fsck of an xfs volume is just as slow as
On 04/24 03:10 , David Rees wrote:
Why would you ever need to fsck a ext3 volume?
Corruption happens.
Especially if you have hardware that flakes out at all; which it might.
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Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com
Anyone is using BackupPC with the data directory (var/lib/backuppc) on
a remote Samba share?
I'm trying to do this but I have a lot of problems (like some timeout
errors of smbclient in /var/log/messages).
I wish to know if this configuration should work or if it is normal it
to make me some
On 04/22 04:43 , shacky wrote:
Anyone is using BackupPC with the data directory (var/lib/backuppc) on
a remote Samba share?
Don't do it.
- If you're using SMB or CIFS I don't think it will support the hardlinks
that BackupPC requires for data pooling.
- It's going to be slow. Just buy a big
- If you're using SMB or CIFS I don't think it will support the hardlinks
that BackupPC requires for data pooling.
- It's going to be slow. Just buy a big cheap local disk.
And connecting the external hard drive to a USB 2.0 port of the server
formatting it to ext3?
I cannot add another
On 04/22 05:07 , shacky wrote:
And connecting the external hard drive to a USB 2.0 port of the server
formatting it to ext3?
should work, tho not the fastest way to do things (and BackupPC is usually
disk-speed-limited on modern hardware).
--
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
On 04/22 04:43 , shacky wrote:
Anyone is using BackupPC with the data directory (var/lib/backuppc)
on
a remote Samba share?
Don't do it.
- If you're using SMB or CIFS I don't think it will support the
hardlinks
that BackupPC requires for data pooling.
My opinion (worth exactly what you're paying for it):
For anything approaching 1TB or larger, consider xfs over ext3. Fsck'ing a
large ext3 filesystem takes ages.
For portability, USB 2 is great. If the drive won't be moving and you have
(or can add) the ports, consider Firewire, or better
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 05:07:52PM +0200, shacky wrote:
- If you're using SMB or CIFS I don't think it will support the hardlinks
that BackupPC requires for data pooling.
- It's going to be slow. Just buy a big cheap local disk.
And connecting the external hard drive to a USB 2.0 port
Quite simply, this is not possible using any kind of standard method.
You could loopmount a ext3 disk image from the samba share but you will
then be going through 2 software layers to get to the filesystem which
will be quite slow!
Best to get a NAS disk that supports NFS or to setup another
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