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From: Cami <camis@mweb.co.za>
To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: --rebuild-tree
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 11:20:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40EA6ED5.8070003@mweb.co.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40EA6932.7090606@namesys.com>

Hi Vladimir

>> Can anyone tell me roughly how dangerous this is
> 
> it is not dangerous. Just, please, make sure you have recent reiserfsck.

Yea.. I updated to the latest version last night..

>> and roughly how long something like this will take?
> 
> hard to say. It depends on hardware. Given that 35 gb is not too much 

Its a big ass Dell storage device (CX600) with fibre
drives so its quite a monster / quite fast..

> reiserfsck --rebuild-tree should not take too much. 2 hours? Vitaly may 
> want to correct me, though

mm.. thats not too bad at all..

>> The filesystem stores all the users mailboxes in
>> maildir format so there are millions of files..
>>
>> Any tips/comments would be appreciated..
> 
> PS: please do not forget that backuping is important when dealing with 
> user mailboxes even if you are running super reliable hardward and 
> bugless software.

Busy making a snapshot of the filesystem now..

Thanks!
Cami

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-06  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-06  6:28 I've done a very bad mistake Andreas Otto
2004-07-06  7:15 ` --rebuild-tree Cami
2004-07-06  8:56   ` --rebuild-tree Vladimir V. Saveliev
2004-07-06  9:20     ` Cami [this message]
2004-07-06 10:22     ` --rebuild-tree Vitaly Fertman

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