2012/10/11 Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net> > ... > > I'm struggling with 7Tb filesystems, it takes about 30 minutes to check >> them in case of cold reset. Too much. Very too much. >> and currently, no journals or anything else which could speed up 7Tb >> filesystems check ? >> > > Almost always (in my mind/experience), file systems that big are bad > design. Break your system into chunks, you will end up much happier, and I > suspect your users will be, too. > > Advanced file systems have costs that have to be considered in system > design. ZFS is everyone's favorite file system at the moment, but having > played with it a bit, even if it re-released with a ISC/BSD license (don't > wait up), I doubt it would ever be accepted into OpenBSD -- it's a > knobfest, it's anything BUT set it and ignore it; it's job security for > people setting up such systems. > > In your case...if you have multiple 500GB or 1TB file systems, you can > hopefully mount most of them R/O, and not have to worry about fsck times at > all. > > Nick. > >
there are http access logs for half an year. it's easier to rotate them on a single filesystem from many points of view, we also share it via samba (very tricky to share many chunks). and it is bad idea to mount access logs R/O. difficult to rotate.
