Re: fsck

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

Jay Weber said:
> You might want to take a look at ext3 (journaled ext2 fs) and get rid of
> that annoying fsck wait. :)

I've been running ext3 on the larger filesystems on the web server for
a couple of months now.  It seems to be doing pretty well.  The only
major problem is that currently *everything* is journalled, metadata
*and* data.  (Usually you only want metadata journalling.)  That makes
large writes significantly slower than on regular ext2.  A
metadata-only journalling ext3 patch should be available sometime soon
though...

The really cool part about ext3 is that a cleanly unmounted ext3
filesystem can be mounted as either ext2 or ext3 without any special
work, so you can try ext3 without really committing to it.  There are
arguably better journalling filesystems available now, like ReiserFS
and XFS, although they don't give you the easy back-out plan...

Steve
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