From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 7 06:02:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4F6D16A4DA for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 06:02:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (mail.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 985BD43D46 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 06:02:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.171.127.191] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1G9yCY-00030d-VW for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2006 00:02:59 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: <20060807055126.GA27084@sysadm.stc> References: <44D14C43.10957.1C8B605A@rabing.omc.net> <20060803001240.41813.qmail@web34508.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <72cf361e0608051235n5c0e70fobc6f6caad8eeec69@mail.gmail.com> <20060807055126.GA27084@sysadm.stc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 00:02:58 -0600 To: freebsd-questions Questions X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.171.127.191 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Subject: Re: 4TB filesystem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 06:02:59 -0000 On Aug 6, 2006, at 11:51 PM, Igor Robul wrote: > On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 08:35:31PM +0100, Martin Hepworth wrote: >> Softupdates removes the issue if havinh to fsck filesystems after and >> unclean umount..... > Background fsck does not work well with big filesystems, it can > literaly > make server useless for long period of time, sometimes I just boot > server in single user mode and do "fsck -y" because while it means > downtime, but after this downtime server will work ... while > background > fsck eats all server memory and most of CPU. > > I'm very happy, that I dont need do this often :-) > If I remember the postings or news from a while back right, someone is porting ZFS from OpenSolaris to FreeBSD(?). I will be glad when this happens. I have been playing with ZFS on a Solaris machine and it is majorly cool. Goodbye fsck and Hello ease of use and performance. Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net