Hi, Below is the output from "tune4fs". From what people are saying it looks like et4 may not be the way to go. [root@sraid3 ~]# tune4fs -l /dev/sdb tune4fs 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009) Filesystem volume name: <none> Last mounted on: /sraid3/sraid3 Filesystem UUID: adc08889-f6a9-47c6-a570-e51c480240a3 Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype sparse_super large_file Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash Default mount options: (none) Filesystem state: not clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 731381760 Block count: 2925527040 Reserved block count: 146276352 Free blocks: 499285087 Free inodes: 730894437 First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Reserved GDT blocks: 326 Blocks per group: 32768 Fragments per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 8192 Inode blocks per group: 512 Filesystem created: Wed Feb 10 14:49:46 2010 Last mount time: Fri Oct 1 18:49:29 2010 Last write time: Mon Oct 4 01:32:34 2010 Mount count: 3 Maximum mount count: 37 Last checked: Mon Jun 7 15:51:57 2010 Check interval: 15552000 (6 months) Next check after: Sat Dec 4 14:51:57 2010 Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 256 Required extra isize: 28 Desired extra isize: 28 Default directory hash: half_md4 Directory Hash Seed: 78a52c1a-0e24-4e94-b1dc-e193e7cac68d On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Miguel Medalha wrote: > > Can you give us the output of "tune4fs -l /dev/sdb" ? > > Does it show " has_journal" under "Filesystem features"? > > If it doesn't, you can input the following: > > tune4fs -o journal_data > > The option "journal_data" fits the case in which you don't care about the > fastest speed but you put your focus on data integrity instead. > > By the way, if you only used the defaults when creating the ext4 filesystems, > I am afraid that you didn't use the ext4 specific features that give it a > real advantage over ext3. Some of them cannot be configured latter, they have > to be specified when you create the filesystem. > > Steve _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos