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On Jun 8, 2005, at 5:48 PM, secmgr wrote:
Actually it's a very valid choice. At this time, Linux offers
ext3, XFS (from SGI), JFS (from IBM) and RieserFS as journaled file
systems (as in no fscking fsck). JFS, XFS and RieserFS
I wrote:
> after an unclean boot that would be a great boon. It would be nice if
> one can in the future chose between softupdates (for smaller
> filesystems) and journalling (for larger ones), or so.
OTOH, if journalling works really well and painless, like on Linux with
the ext2->ext3 migration
secmgr wrote:
> hanging all IO's to the partition. Scale that upto 1.8TB, and I could
> see where you could be going nowhere for a good 10 minutes just waiting
> for the snap to finish. Still better than waiting hours for fsck, but
> nowhere near the recovery speed of a true journaled system.
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Dmitriy Kirhlarov wrote:
Hi Pierre!
On Wed, 08 Jun 2005, Pierre DAVID wrote:
Do you have a clue to help us use FreeBSD and not switch on Linux
for this service?
Bad workaround.
You can create many small partitions and mount_unionfs.
Actually it's a very valid choice. At this ti
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:52:39PM +0800, Xin LI wrote:
>
> Would you please provide a bit more of information so we can investigate
> what was happening, like:
>
> - first few lines dumpfs(8) output from your storage filesystem
> - df -i on your storag filesystem
> - dmesg.boot
Hi Pierre!
On Wed, 08 Jun 2005, Pierre DAVID wrote:
> Do you have a clue to help us use FreeBSD and not switch on Linux
> for this service?
Bad workaround.
You can create many small partitions and mount_unionfs.
By.
Dmitriy
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Hi, Pierre,
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:31:37PM +0200, Pierre DAVID wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we are setting up a mail server for ~50 000 users, with around 1.8TB
> on a DAS storage (HP MSA 500).
>
> We were planning to use FreeBSD (5.4-RELEASE), as with all other
> servers in our machine room.
>
> Howev
Hi,
we are setting up a mail server for ~50 000 users, with around 1.8TB
on a DAS storage (HP MSA 500).
We were planning to use FreeBSD (5.4-RELEASE), as with all other
servers in our machine room.
However, we are encountering a show stopper: after an unclean
shutdown, the snapshot that fsck cre
