Timo wrote: > ------- Original message ------- >> From: <m.roth at 5-cent.us> >> Sent: 18.2.'10, 18:21 >>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Henry Ritzlmayr >>> <fedora-list at rc0.at>wrote: >>>> 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"