On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 17:11 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Keep in mind when you say that, the downtime in question might be several days for a full fsck to run, depending more on the number of files than the size of the filesystem.
Is there some way you'all are formatting your Ext3 partitions that takes so long? I don't think has ever taken longer than 8 hours to fully fsck my Ext3 partitions on a multi-TB server -- and typically I only have 1-2 filesystems that need a full fsck and I'm _never_ down more than 1-2 hours.
I'm wondering if it's becauase I'm typically using only 100GB (and _never_ more than 1TB) Ext3 filesystems. And I'm deploying 3Ware hardware RAID-10 and, limitedly, RAID-5 on servers that have PCI-X slots. I often find _extremely_poorly_ designed servers are the culprit, and not so much other issues.
So maybe this is one of those "best practices" discussions we should have on another list? I just have to shake my head when I hear people talk about multi-day fsck runs. I've _never_ had that happen.