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"IT3 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR-R" wrote: > With regard to ReiserFS, I don't see why allowing it to be > installed that way, means it must be a supported configuration. > RH could easily simply allow you to install in that manner, > but support it via their technical support. Mandrake may operate that way, but RedHat does _not_ -- at least that has been my experience.

I've seen this come up on occassion, but every NAS OEM that uses NVRAM I've ever talked to over the last 18 months won't tell me anything about their equipment nor their suppliers. Recently, Micro Memory contacted me. Is anyone here using their products? FYI, their 64-bit PCI 128MB-1GB NVRAM board is here:

"IT3 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR-R" wrote: > In 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

Dr. Tweedie, et al.: I have decided to move to EXT3 from ReiserFS if I can get tail packing for EXT3. Last I had asked about it, someone had written some sort of patch but it was not official (I think), and was questionable if it had worked or not. Can someone tell me the status in the instant? If I installed 2.4.18 or a later kernel, would tail packing be part of EXT3? How would I turn it on or

Dear Sir or Ma'am: I am interested to think about implementing EXT3 onto my servers here. However, I have some concerns and am hoping someone can address them. 1) If I install ext3 what is the likelihood that the extent of damage caused by its bugs will be limited to just the fact that the journals may not work properly? Alternatively, do I risk real damage to files and the filesystem at

[ NOTE: I'm putting this off-topic thread back on the Ext3 list, temporarily, as I hope _someone_else_ can help this gentleman better than I have. With each response I get 10 more questions, 5 of them have already been answered and another 5 that utterly confuses me on what he is trying to accomplish, because he's changing his priorities (to often conflicting ones). ] "IT3 Stuart

EXT3 developers: I am curious, if EXT3 is currently being used on the root partition in "data=ordered" mode (the default as I understand), and I want to have the it come up in data=journal mode, how do you effectuate this conversion? I would also be curious how to know if anything special is required for doing so for the /boot partition as well. I believe that with the /home partition,

hi i got 2 questions and maybe someone could shed some light: a) i'm using kernel 2.4.17 and use ext3 in it. is it possible that the whole system is slower than with ext2? i switched back to ext2 (great feature!!!) and the system's response seemed somewhat better. should/could there be such a effect as double writing of journaled data? i didnt activate debugging (jbd). b) is reiserfs

Hello, I'm using a defualt everything install of 7.2 (kernel 2.4.7-10 #1) with a 27 gig ext3 / partition. The problem that I am experiencing is this: If I create more than (about) 3.5 million distinct files on the partition, touch, mkdir, cp and all other file creation methods complain that there is no available space on the disk. A df shows me that the partition is only 65% full.

Can anyone tell me if there has been testing of using an SMP kernel on a UP machine and if that is bad? I have an ext3 filesystem that keeps getting corrupt. Certain directories only get I/O errors, trying to access beyond the end of the device. Thanks, Gabe

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

I'm using RedHat 7.2 with kernel 2.4.18-26.7.xsmp and root mount using ext3. And I have simple test.pl script: #!/usr/local/bin/perl open FILE, ">testfile"; while(1){ print FILE "Test.\n" or die $!; } It's died when the file size is 2147483647 and give error message: "File size limit exceeded" and I run "cat testfile testfile >>

Hi! Today I switched over to devfs. I'm on Debian unstable, installed devfsd, installed a kernel with devfs support and "devfs mount on boot". Reboot, devfs is being used. All over a sudden, dmesg reports: Linux version 2.4.21-ac1 (root@hummus) (gcc version 3.3 (Debian)) #1 Sun Jun 15 19:06:13 CEST 2003 ... kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted

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

Are there any benchmark resultss that meaningfully compare performance of ext2 vs ext3 vs rieserfs vs sgi xfs? What about effect on cpu usage?

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

A hardware vendor shipped us a product installed with RedHat 8.0 with all file systems created as ext3. This system has about 800 GB of space which we use for buffering email files (in RFC format). Several weeks into the project and with millions of emails stored, we started seeing "out of inode" (something like that) error messages in the /var/log/messages. Are inodes fixed on ext3

I'll try to keep this short (yeah right! ;-). Being primarily a user, I find myself bitching, analyzing and complaining about things I don't stop to understand half the time. I've done more than may share in this regard the various filesystems over the years. I've done a few LUG and tradeshow presentations over the past year, trying to inform different peer admins what Linux JFS

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