Large File System?

[Martin Hepworth]

Well ext3 can have problems too - I've had numerous problems with that, and
had to revert back to ext2 to get the filesystem to mount. XFS is much
better.

And I've had no problems with UFS/softupdates on FreeBSD, but YMMV as they
say.

But yes, when ZFS gets ported to FreeBSD we will all very happy.

--
Martin

On 8/8/06, Freminlins <freminlins at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 08/08/06, Atom Powers <atom.powers at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Thanks. I found my problem. (Sysinstall, aka fdisk, won't do more that
> > 1.2TB.)
> > BTW, anybody have any good advice on how to manage a large file system?
>
>
> Unfortunately I have to say "consider Solaris or Linux as they have
> journalling file systems."
>
> Although I have a couple of big file systems on FreeBSD, it is not a
> pretty
> sight if there is some sort of problem. Recently our colo lost power. The
> two boxes that needed manually fixing were the two big file system boxes.
> Background fsck did not fix them. To compare, we have one almost identical
> box running Linux. It came straight back up courtesy of ext3.
>
> Ignoring all the suggestions to get UPS (the colo had generator backed UPS
> which failed), etc, problems can/do happen. And when they do, journalling
> for big file systems is very useful.
>
> The single most important thing missing for me in FreeBSD is a journalling
> file system as I would use it on every box.
>
> You don't need to do anything more to manage big file systems per se. How
> big a file system are you going to create? What are you going to use it
> for?
> That might help with suggestions.
>
> --Atom Powers--
> >
>
>
> Frem.
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