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> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ralph Angenendt
> Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 3:55 AM
> To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: fs for > 16 TiB partition
>
> Rainer Duffner wrote:
> > It's running in a datacenter with UPSs. But once I reboot
> it, it it's
> > the "fsck-every-n-days" thing.
> >
> > I don't think it's a good idea to disable that behaviour.
>
> Hmmm. xfs will not do that, the normal behaviour is not check the file
> system on every nth reboot. I normally have turned that off with ext3,
> too - if the system goes down unexpectedly, then I normally do one.
>
> BTW: ext3 handles "Out of power" corruptions better than xfs does.
>
> Ralph
>
While the fsck.xfs essentially is nothing more than a /bin/true, do note that if you EVER need to run xfs_check or xfs_repair, you need mre than a fair amount of RAM to properly check the volume. See the following URL for the gory details:
http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2005-08/msg00391.html
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