Hi!
I'm justing in the process of setting up a new fileserver for our company. I'm installing CentOS 5.3 (64 bit) on it.
One of the "problems" with it is that it has a 3.5TB filesystem for the user data which I formatted during setup as an ext3. Now my experience with our current fileserver is that a 0.5TB ext3 filesystem needs approx half an hour to complete (and kicks in every so and so reboots or every 180days). My estimate is that for the larger filesystem (and the faster machine) the fsck would need well over an hour (being optimistic). I dread the day when I have to reboot the server and wait for 2hours or more just because the system thought it would be a prudent thing to check the filesystem.
My question:
- is there another stable filesystem (XFS, ReiserFS ...) in the centosplus-kernel where this could be avoided (fsck is faster) and that is as safe as ext3 - Or would it be better to switch off automatic checking with tune2fs
Any opinion/experience welcome. I looked around a bit but couldn't find a good answer
Bernhard
PS: Sorry for the stupid question, but I'm only part-time admin and testing this myself would take weeks, I guess