> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Ralph Angenendt > Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 3:55 AM > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] fs for > 16 TiB partition > > Rainer Duffner wrote: > > It's running in a datacenter with UPSs. But once I reboot > it, it it's > > the "fsck-every-n-days" thing. > > > > I don't think it's a good idea to disable that behaviour. > > Hmmm. xfs will not do that, the normal behaviour is not check the file > system on every nth reboot. I normally have turned that off with ext3, > too - if the system goes down unexpectedly, then I normally do one. > > BTW: ext3 handles "Out of power" corruptions better than xfs does. > > Ralph > While the fsck.xfs essentially is nothing more than a /bin/true, do note that if you EVER need to run xfs_check or xfs_repair, you need mre than a fair amount of RAM to properly check the volume. See the following URL for the gory details: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2005-08/msg00391.html -- Gary L. Greene, Jr. IT Operations Minerva Networks, Inc. Cell: (650) 704-6633 Phone: (408) 240-1239