on 11-20-2008 8:22 AM Toby Bluhm spake the following: > Jiann-Ming Su wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Laurent Wandrebeck >> <l.wandrebeck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Outside more up-to-date question, here is my own experience with >>> jfs/xfs. > . > . > . >> The only thing I don't like about ext3 is the fsck. On relatively >> small filesystems, it's an annoyance. But on huge filesystem, >> 500-1000GB, a system may take a long, long time to come back up. > > > If you use ext3 on lvm, you can do a background fsck. > > http://markmail.org/message/5ipnsva3xkdyzzfy > > Now that is interesting. I will have to experiment with that one. I have several large systems that sooner or later will need to FSCK. In the past I would schedule a fsck on reboot over a long holiday, and hope no one needed anything, or set up another synced copy for that time. It takes a lot of planning, and careful re-syncing if something changed. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!
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