> Malcolm Beattie wrote:
> > He said that ext2 fsck right *now* would take 3
> > hours for a 100GB filesystem. I replied saying that I'd benchmarked
> > it at 13 minutes for a 75% full 43GB filesystem (and I now have 4 such
> > filesystems attached to our mail server cluster). Within a year, I
> > expect to see journalling support for ext2. Within that year, I don't
> > expect any system crashes and, if there is a crash, I find 13 minutes
> > to be an acceptable fsck time given the other advantages of the Linux
> > mail cluster.
>
> I find the 5 minutes for my 75% full 6.4GB filesystem tedious but ok.
> If fsck time were linear, the same system would take 33.5 minutes for 43GB.
If you're saying that 33.5 minutes downtime is okay with you, I guess you
don't have *customers* on this system. It will be Not OK to them.
-- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@IUPUI.Edu A Brazil-nut is neatly packaged and tightly integrated. To turn it into food, you must crack and remove the shell. I find that I feel the same way about an increasing number of software products. *sigh*
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