Re: Linux client pathology

2003-12-10 Thread Lloyd Dieter
5 Million files on ext2? Hope you never have to fsck that monster. You may want to talk to the admin about using reiserfs -Lloyd On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 13:49:39 -0500 Thomas Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote thusly: > > On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 11:29:59 -0500 > > Thomas Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: Linux client pathology

2003-12-09 Thread Richard Sims
... >The messages for an electronic mail system with several thousand users >reside in a subdirectory of /var. The messages undoubtedly should have >gone into a separate file system, even if the file system's mount point >were in /var. ... Thomas - The next best alternative to a separate file sys

Re: Linux client pathology

2003-12-09 Thread Thomas Denier
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 11:29:59 -0500 > Thomas Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We have been backing up a Linux client with about five million files on > > it. The system administrator has told me that he recently updated the > > include/exclude files to exclude a portion of /var that accounts

Re: Linux client pathology

2003-12-09 Thread Remco Post
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 11:29:59 -0500 Thomas Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have been backing up a Linux client with about five million files on > it. The system administrator has told me that he recently updated the > include/exclude files to exclude a portion of /var that accounts for 5 mil

Linux client pathology

2003-12-09 Thread Thomas Denier
We have been backing up a Linux client with about five million files on it. The system administrator has told me that he recently updated the include/exclude files to exclude a portion of /var that accounts for most of the file. I have not so far been able to verify this be inspecting the configura