[OCLUG-Tech] Run for oclug-board

2010-03-17 Thread Ian Ward
As Roland mentioned in his recent email, OCLUG is still eager to have candidates for the board. Currently we have 4 people running for 6 spots. If you're interested in running please email board-memb...@oclug.on.ca. It's a pretty light commitment: a couple hours a month with about half the meeti

[OCLUG-Tech] OCLUG April meeting

2010-03-17 Thread R RENAUD
I'm reposting this to the correct mailing list - roland I've just updated the meeting information on the OCLUG web page. (http://oclug.on.ca/) Michael Richardson's talk on Net Neutrality has been moved to the May meeting. The April meeting is the OCLUG Annual General Meeting consisting of repo

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] best practice for periodically checking (ext3) filesystems?

2010-03-17 Thread Spencer Cheng
$ zpool scrub poolname Takes about 4 hours on a raidz (2+1 HDD) ZFS volume for about 750GB of data. :) Validates all checksums for all the metadata and data. Regards, Spencer On Mar 17, 2010, at 13:08, Brett Delmage wrote: > What do other people do on (home) servers for checking large ext3 or

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] best practice for periodically checking (ext3) filesystems?

2010-03-17 Thread Brett Delmage
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Brett Delmage wrote: > A 1 TB disk full of my ripped CDs can take a while to fsck... I'm going to reply to myself :-) to state the unstated obvious... volumes like this can easily be unmounted and fscked periodically, not during reboot - which I do now. ___

[OCLUG-Tech] best practice for periodically checking (ext3) filesystems?

2010-03-17 Thread Brett Delmage
What do other people do on (home) servers for checking large ext3 or other journaling filesystems? It always seems to be the lesser convenient time for a fsck to run when I reboot for a kernel update, even though the count frequency and maximal time are at increased values right now. A 1 TB di