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2002 Feb 04
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Re: 2GB of Waste? How can it be? -- some JFS are worse than non-JFS
...terms of enterprise reliability, I understand, however, having an
> "office recommended journaling filesystem",
Some journaling filesystems can be _worse_ than non-journaled. If
the recovery mechanism of the JFS is to "aggressively" go to the
journal, journal mis-reads can _toast_ a filesystem. I'll take a
full fsck that _always_ works to a jounaling filesystem that
aggressively goes to the journal, or has unproven recovery tools.
I have experienced this on NTFS many times. To the point where I
_force_ a CHKDSK anyway, on any improper shutdown (effectively
negating th...
2005 Jun 24
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Re: Opteron Mobo Suggestions -- the follies of typical tape backup (it's the 21st century)
...t;
> What about LVM snapshots? I've been using these for awhile with no
> problems. Yes, I understand that it will consume disk bandwith but
> that's not a limitation in my installation.
Snapshots are an "on-line" backup and they only work if your filesystem
isn't _toast_. They aren't the same as "near-line."
Again, read the "document" I sent you off-line. ;-ppp
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Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org