New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

[Kaya Saman]

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> I would say ufs2 easily wins, but remember this is the 
> freebsd-questions list ;)  There are some differences though, ufs2 
> uses softupdates, not journaling(journaling is available and easy to 
> implement via gjournal).  Softupdates I believe are a little faster 
> than journaling, but it's drawback is long disk checking after a dirty 
> shutdown.  I've never had a ufs specific issue in hundreds if not 
> thousands of deployments, but nothing is guaranteed.  ufs does have a 
> great track records and bunch of service hours logged.

Cool meaning I am going UFS2 on my new install!

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> Example after a dirty shutdown:
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>  fsck -y 

Aaah fsck :-) If I run this on an ext3 FS it tends to make things much 
worse as I did it once and got left with a whole bunch of unattached 
inodes :-(

reason for Linux and ext3 e2fsck is much better I have found from 
personal experience!

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> That's actually a bit disconcerting, do you have hardware instability? 

Nope! These systems are actually desktop systems which I run as servers 
as I couldn't afford to buy proper systems so got a whole bunch of cheap 
x86 boxes off Ebay. If running Scalix though I found it really eats up 
hard drives - although running a collaboration suite on a laptop is not 
the most intelligent thing to do but then what else can you do with a 
portable computer with bust LCD display?

Left in my parents house in the UK now as I'm currently in Turkey but my 
lab from scavenged parts and systems: 
http://www.optiplex-networks.com/lab/lab.html

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> -- 
> Adam Vande More

Kaya