thanks everyone for their kind replies. So, will LVM and FS (ext2/3 in particular )ever be considered as 1? This would be nice for ease of devt. On 12/10/05, Marc-Jano Knopp <pub_ml_lvm@marc-jano.de> wrote: > On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 at 15:51 (-0700), Michael Loftis wrote: > > --On December 10, 2005 3:44:00 PM -0700 Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com> > > wrote: > > >--On December 10, 2005 11:31:40 PM +0100 Marc-Jano Knopp <pub_ml_lvm@marc-jano.de> wrote: > [...] > > >Any tail can be packed if it doesn't match the block size. In our case > > >the corruption evidenced itself as files with the first part being ok, > > >and the last part being all NULLs (0x0) up to the 'normal' file size. > > > > I really should say *mostly* because yes, files that were entirely shorter > > than the blocksize were essentially gone (full of NULLs). > > I knew it. :-) > > > > Our mail server makes the best use of reiserfs because of the huge number > > of files and the amount of files that end up packed. > > Same effect with news spool here (until ReiserFS lost files and I > returned remorsefully to ext3 :-). > > > Best regards > > Marc-Jano > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
