On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Frank Colby wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I laughed out loud when I read Gerry's last post. But really, some of us,
maybe a fair number of us, aren't IT professionals, and while this group of
postings about file systems has been pretty technical, it's of real benefit
to me, since I haven't really worried about the kind of file system I use.
We don't stress our LDM system too much, get a minimal amount of radar data,
for instance, but I have noticed that when some of our many systems go down,
fsck can take forever to finish its job. I do appreciate the information on
alternatives, and hope I'm not in the minority!
Thanks,
Frank Colby
UMass Lowell
part time IT person, full time professor!
Ditto. I had been using EXT2 for years, but was frustrated at how many
times the file system would corrupt. In a few cases, I would have to
reformat and start all over, restoring from backup. With EXT3, it rarely
corrupts, and when it does, a reboot and 60 seconds of journal restoring
automagically fixes everything.
Sure, I don't like the occasional fsck for one hour every now and then,
but it sure beats what I had before by a million miles in terms of
stability. That said, ext4 looks very promising and faster if stable,
and CentOS6 may be a good time for me to switch over and try it out.
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