Timo wrote:
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From: m.roth@5-cent.us Sent: 18.2.'10, 18:21
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Henry Ritzlmayr fedora-list@rc0.atwrote:
nate wrote:
I don't bother changing the setting for local disks as it is usually pretty quick to scan them. You must have a pretty big and/or slow file system for fsck to take 2+ hours.
This particular server has 2x 500GB HDD's with failry "full" XEN VM's on it, each with it's own LVM volumes, so I guess it's a bit more complex than a normal ext2 system :)
Um, we've only got some cluster nodes with drives under 750G; most of ours have that, or 950G, and we're moving a lot to 1T, and some 1.5T. Then there's large raid arrays. They take a *while* to fsck. Unless I'm having serious disk problems, I've had to boot using fastboot as a kernel line parm for grub.
What about using a 'decent' file system, such as XFS?
Lessee, I'm *not* talking about my system at home. a) I'm talking about work; b) My manager, my co-worker, and myself support nearly 200 servers, including 5 clusters. Some people that we support "only" run jobs that go for 2-4 days, but there was the guy who was running a job that I had to wait until it was finished to reboot the NFS server with his home directory... and I waited ->two weeks<-.
Then there's the question of how we'd migrate.
Sorry, time for a real world check.
mark "that is, if my manager was willing in the first place"