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I made some tests to see how ext3 reiserfs 3.6 and jfs survive disk errors. The test is simple: format a partition, copy the kernel source, unmount and and do ?dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdd bs=512 count=100000 seek=30000? to simulate a disk surface damage and then run fsck. seek=30000 ? this must be the second half of journal in reiserfs and ext3, for jfs I don't know Result: jfs: ---- total

Hi I plan to set up a big file server, something like motherboard with 4 ide ports and an additional 4 ide daughter card, a PIV proc and 512 or 1024 MB ram, a 100 or 1000 MB NIC, with 6 or 7 200 GB ide HDDs in a sigle box. I don't need lightning performance, just disk space. Of course this would be served by some linux os and samba questions (relative to samba configuration and behaviour) :

I'm in the process of building a home file server and am of course going to use Linux 2.4 (2.4.6 for now...). I'm waffling between resierfs and ext3. I've read the ext3 page and some of the mailing list archives but have a few questions remaining. (I apologize in advance if they are redundant.) Are there any known issues with: - LVM - LVM snapshots (more on that in a sec) -

Everyone, We just had a pretty bad crash on one of production boxes and the ext2 filesystem on the data partition of our box had some major filesystem corruption. Needless to say, I am now looking into converting the filesystem to ext3 and I have some questions regarding ext3 and Linux software RAID. I have read that previously there were some issues running ext3 on a software raid device

hello, i'm a new suscriber of this mailing-list, hoping i'll be able to help u. But before i've a question. I've to mount a huge file server using Samba. We bought a new server, using raid 5 technology. My question is, now i've to install on it my favorite operating system :) and i ask me which filesystem type i've to use to increase Samba performances on it, some people

Hi! A few weeks ago we upgraded 9 large webservers from ext2 to ext3. Since then we've seen very strange behavior on several of the machines. Permissions of files are repeatedly changed at random occasions. Several times, ownership of files have been totally mangled. Several users have logged in to discover that all their files suddenly are owned by another user! At two of these occasions

Hey, I've a problem with an ext3 filesystem and don't know how to fix it or find the failure :( The Hardware: Tyan mainboard, AMD Athlon CPU, ARECA ARC-1120 RaidController Raid5 with 400GB Seagate HD's, 756 MB Ram, other harddisks for system, network and avm isdn controller. Couse of the filesystem problems I run memtest and found one bad memory module which I replaced yet. The

Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP3 I've tried to create a large 5TB file system using both reiserfs and ext3 and both have failed. I end up with only a 1.5TB file system. Does anyone know why this doesn't work, what to do to fix it? Others have suggested that only XFS or JFS will work. Is this so? Thanks, -Mark

Hello I try again. Can anybody of you acknowledge or not if mode data=journal in ext3 is safe to use in Linux kernel 2.6.x? Wee need to have a very consistent and integrity for our filesystem, and it would then be desired to journal both data and metadata. But if this mode can corrupt the filesystem as both Phil White and Nicolas Kowalski has experienced, it may be more advised to use mode

Now that I've been enlightened to the terrible write performance of ext3 on my new 3Ware RAID 5 array, I'm stuck choosing an alternative filesystem. I benchmarked XFS, JFS, ReiserFS and ext3 and they came back in that order from best to worst performer. I'm leaning towards XFS because of performance and because centosplus makes kernel modules available for the stock kernel.

Hi! Are these results i got from my benchmarking "normal" or is there something strange happening in my system? This box is going to be a mailserver, so i tested various fs to decide on which i should utilize. I personally dislike reiserfs because it has proven somehow unreliable on our servers (although it got better in the more recent kernels), ext3 would be quite good (fsck'ing

Hi, I have an ext3 file system on top of LVM and i use journaled mode. I would like to make a snapshot of my filesystem while the application is running in order to backup on another physical storage. For that i have to create an LVM snapshot and then to mount it in read-only for copying the content. This is not possible as far as ext3 needs to do a log replay at mount time ( AFAIK). I would

> Hi, > Sorry if this is a stupid question (bit of a newbie). I'm building a Samba > fileserver on a box with a hardware raid array of about 65GB which I'm > hoping to share out to the local LAN . I was wondering if the filesystem > used (ext2,ext3, reiserfs etc) on the partition where the Samba shares > will reside makes much of a difference? I'd obviously like to

We are looking at implementing a Linux box running samba in the near future with about 1TB of disk online. The purpose of this box will be for basic file and printer sharing needs. I am doing research on the different journaling file systems avaible in RH 7.3 and up (ext3, reiserFS, and JFS) and was wondering if anyone has had any real world experience with them (mostly reiserFS and JFS) and

Hey! I have some RHEL6 hypervisors and the VMs are in raw qemu image files in a local raid array linux raid + lvm + ext3. When a kernel update is installed a reboot is necessary, usually it has been more than 180 days since the last reboot and the file system is fsck'd and this takes 2-3 hours. I am curious to know if there is any documentation that addresses the pro's and con's of

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <font size="-1"><font face="Verdana">Hi all,<br> <br> In last year, i had made some research and benchmarks based on CentOS 4 to know which filesystem is better for

Hi! I was just wondering how Ext3 and Reiserfs compare. When I reinstalled my server (because of a stupid hacker) I took the opportunity to change to ReiserFS. And I have to say it's really much faster than Ext3. I don't have benchmarks, but for example, stuff like "make dep" on the linux kernel is much faster (even though I had enabled write cache when I was using ext3). So

Hi, I'm having a problem with ext3 on my system. I'm running 2.4.13 with the appropiate ext3 patch and a software raid array with paritiions as shown below: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md5 939M 237M 654M 27% / /dev/md0 91M 22M 65M 25% /boot /dev/md6 277M 8.1M 254M 4% /tmp /dev/md7 1.8G 1.3G

Just looking through the 2.4.20pre changelogs, I see there's been a bunch of Ext3 patches since 2.4.19. I'm keen to take advantage of any bug fixes and performance improvements, but am nervous about using 2.4.20 until it's completed its release cycle. Is there any way to get a patch just containing the Ext3 changes? Are there any changes since 2.4.20 that are very important, either

Anyone try this yet? ftp://ftp.valinux.com/pub/software/kernel/beta/2.4.5-beta2va3.11/ List of SRPM contents follows. -- TheBS atomic-lookup.patch atomicalloc.patch byteprofiling.patch comtrol-1.23.patch configs-2.4.5.tar.gz copy-user-reschedule.patch dac960-enclosure-quiet.patch dma-livelock-fix.patch e100-1.5.5.tar.gz e1000-3.0.7.tar.gz eepro100-speedo-1.patch emu10k1-tone.patch