From: Vesa-Pekka Palmu <palmu@aski.hut.fi>
To: ehud@unix.mvs.co.il,
LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM limits?
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:53:37 +0200 (EET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801282152350.4629@aski.hut.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801281801.m0SI10Xi010185@beta.mvs.co.il>
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Ehud Karni wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:38:14 Chris Cox wrote:
>>
>> Ok. But it's really impractical to have large multi-terabyte
>> single filesystem today. What are you wanting to do? Ever fsck a
>> 2TB filesystem? Consider yourself warned.
>
> Just last night I ran fsck on my home 1.5 TB file server (it is software
> RAID-5 - mdadm, built on 7200 RPM, 500GB SATA2 x 4, ext3 without LVM).
> It has went 191 days without fsck so when I booted the machine (I just
> upgraded to 2.6.18-53.1.6.el5) it did the fsck automaticaly.
>
> It took less then 90 minutes.
>
ext3 isn't the best filesystem for large volumes, it's worth considering
alternatives like jfs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-28 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-28 10:23 [linux-lvm] LVM limits? Jordi Prats
2008-01-28 19:24 ` Jordi Prats
2008-01-28 17:38 ` Chris Cox
2008-01-28 18:01 ` Ehud Karni
2008-01-28 19:08 ` Chris Cox
2008-01-28 19:53 ` Vesa-Pekka Palmu [this message]
2008-01-28 21:52 ` Joseph L. Casale
2008-01-28 23:38 ` Ehud Karni
2008-01-29 0:27 ` Chris Cox
2008-01-29 10:04 ` Ehud Karni
2008-01-29 16:16 ` Chris Cox
2008-01-29 0:16 ` Jordi Prats
2008-01-28 23:47 ` Jordi Prats
2008-01-29 6:58 ` Michael Eisenkölbl
2008-01-29 17:38 ` Lars Ellenberg
2008-02-01 5:40 ` David Robinson
2008-02-01 13:08 ` [linux-lvm] LVM limits? OT Steeve McCauley
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