Re: [Fwd: Re: Show stopper for large disks with 5.4-RELEASE]

2005-06-08 Thread Matthias Buelow
I wrote: > after an unclean boot that would be a great boon. It would be nice if > one can in the future chose between softupdates (for smaller > filesystems) and journalling (for larger ones), or so. OTOH, if journalling works really well and painless, like on Linux with the ext2->ext3 migration

Re: [Fwd: Re: Show stopper for large disks with 5.4-RELEASE]

2005-06-08 Thread Matthias Buelow
secmgr wrote: > hanging all IO's to the partition. Scale that upto 1.8TB, and I could > see where you could be going nowhere for a good 10 minutes just waiting > for the snap to finish. Still better than waiting hours for fsck, but > nowhere near the recovery speed of a true journaled system. S

[Fwd: Re: Show stopper for large disks with 5.4-RELEASE]

2005-06-08 Thread secmgr
Dmitriy Kirhlarov wrote: Hi Pierre! On Wed, 08 Jun 2005, Pierre DAVID wrote: Do you have a clue to help us use FreeBSD and not switch on Linux for this service? Bad workaround. You can create many small partitions and mount_unionfs. Actually it's a very valid choice. At this ti