Bernhard Gschaider wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm justing in the process of setting up a new fileserver for our
> company. I'm installing CentOS 5.3 (64 bit) on it.
>
> One of the "problems" with it is that it has a 3.5TB filesystem for
> the user data which I formatted during setup as an ext3. Now my
> experience with our current fileserver is that a 0.5TB ext3 filesystem
> needs approx half an hour to complete (and kicks in every so and so
> reboots or every 180days). My estimate is that for the larger
> filesystem (and the faster machine) the fsck would need well over an
> hour (being optimistic). I dread the day when I have to reboot the
> server and wait for 2hours or more just because the system thought it
> would be a prudent thing to check the filesystem.
>
> My question:
>
> - is there another stable filesystem (XFS, ReiserFS ...) in the
> centosplus-kernel where this could be avoided (fsck is faster) and
> that is as safe as ext3
> - Or would it be better to switch off automatic checking with tune2fs
>
> Any opinion/experience welcome. I looked around a bit but couldn't
> find a good answer
>
> Bernhard
>
> PS: Sorry for the stupid question, but I'm only part-time admin and
> testing this myself would take weeks, I guess
>
If you use ext3 on LVM, you could every once in a while make a snapshot
of the fs & do a background fsck on the snapshot.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/2008-January/msg00032.html
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tkb
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