On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:13 AM, nate <centos at linuxpowered.net> wrote: > Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > > Is it "absolutely" necessary to run this on servers? Especially since > they > > don't reboot often, but when they do it takes ages for fsck to finish - > > which on web servers causes extra unwanted downtime. > > > > Or is there a way to run fsck with the server running? I know it's a bad > > idea, but is there any way to run it, without causing too much downtime? > I > > just had one server run fsck for 2+ hours, which is not really feasible > in > > our line of business. > > For me at least on my SAN volumes I disable the fsck check after X > number of days or X number of mounts. Of all the times over the years > where I have seen this fsck triggered by those I have never, ever seen > it detect any problems. > > 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. > > nate > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 :) -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100218/8dbd3af7/attachment-0005.html>