On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 05:44:11PM +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: > > 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 Yes, you could use XFS. Or, use tune2fs on the filesystem to disable the automatic checking: # tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/whatever See tune2fs(8) for more information. The -m 0 parameter may also be useful as by default 5% of blocks are "reserved" (useful for root filesystems). > > 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 Ray