On Friday 29 October 2010 11:42:38 przemolicc@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi, > > we have CentOS ftp server (vsftpd) which has a lot of users who are writing > and reading a lot of small files from/into its own accounts (and other > servers - using samba client - are reading these files and putting them > into outside database). > Since this server is under heavy load its availability is important. > > >From time to time we "crash" this server (don't ask why ...) but then fsck > >is running for over 20-30 minuts. > > The question is: is there any other _stable_ filesystem (xfs ?, jfs ?) > which we can use instead of ext3 which is (quite) immune to crashes and > whose fsck is "faster" (by design) then in ext3 ? The idea with ext3/ext4 is that you don't have to run a full fsck after a system crash (only a fully automated journal replay). XFS uses the same idea (no fsck only journal replay). But if you really want to fsck an xfs filesystem then that too will take a lot of time. /Peter
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