Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 11:54:13 +0100 From: "Martin Hepworth" <maxsec@gmail.com> To: Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com> Cc: Atom Powers <atom.powers@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large File System? Message-ID: <72cf361e0608080354s4cb629d7k7c40194a1d5c0441@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <eeef1a4c0608080117r22d05716x1e623dd6ee2cf573@mail.gmail.com> References: <df9ac37c0608071513n7fdfc928r9d1aa3b9e8edfaec@mail.gmail.com> <ygfzmegm97g.fsf@dominion.borderworlds.dk> <df9ac37c0608071636j2f28bc6en66e985d528e8d85f@mail.gmail.com> <eeef1a4c0608080117r22d05716x1e623dd6ee2cf573@mail.gmail.com>
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Well ext3 can have problems too - I've had numerous problems with that, and had to revert back to ext2 to get the filesystem to mount. XFS is much better. And I've had no problems with UFS/softupdates on FreeBSD, but YMMV as they say. But yes, when ZFS gets ported to FreeBSD we will all very happy. -- Martin On 8/8/06, Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 08/08/06, Atom Powers <atom.powers@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Thanks. I found my problem. (Sysinstall, aka fdisk, won't do more that > > 1.2TB.) > > BTW, anybody have any good advice on how to manage a large file system? > > > Unfortunately I have to say "consider Solaris or Linux as they have > journalling file systems." > > Although I have a couple of big file systems on FreeBSD, it is not a > pretty > sight if there is some sort of problem. Recently our colo lost power. The > two boxes that needed manually fixing were the two big file system boxes. > Background fsck did not fix them. To compare, we have one almost identical > box running Linux. It came straight back up courtesy of ext3. > > Ignoring all the suggestions to get UPS (the colo had generator backed UPS > which failed), etc, problems can/do happen. And when they do, journalling > for big file systems is very useful. > > The single most important thing missing for me in FreeBSD is a journalling > file system as I would use it on every box. > > You don't need to do anything more to manage big file systems per se. How > big a file system are you going to create? What are you going to use it > for? > That might help with suggestions. > > --Atom Powers-- > > > > > Frem. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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