Re: ext3 Re: Sarge with ext3, reiserfs (3/4?) or xfs?
On (10/02/05 20:16), Pigeon wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 07:07:16AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 00:36 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > > and moreover, ext3 is subject to super long fsck when you hit the
> > > power switch on 20GB or 200GB or 2TB or 20TB systems
> >
> > That is misleading. As you surely know, the init script runs
> > fsck.ext3 on a partition when *either* of these 2 situations occur:
> > (a) it was not cleanly unmounted
> > OR
> > (b) the partition has not been fsck'ed in X number of days.
>
> Something funny here... When an ext3 fs has not been cleanly
> unmounted, it doesn't run through any kind of super-long fsck. It
> replays the journal, and sorts itself out in a matter of seconds. You
> only get the super-long fsck if it ALSO hasn't been fsck'ed in X
> number of days / Y number of mounts.
>
> I use ext3 on everything, precisely because its recovery from an
> unexpected power outage is fast and reliable. I even had a system once
> which was used by kids who would "shut down" by pulling the plug, as a
> matter of course - ext3 handled it just fine.
I'll second that. I recently installed sarge on 4 servers (2 i386 and 2
G4') using ext3. After they were fully configured, I pulled the plug on
all 4 and they came up without a hiccup.
Regards
Clive
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