Re: [GENERAL] ext3 block size

2003-08-14 Thread scott.marlowe
We're running on ext2 on our box, with nightly backups. There's not much in the database we can't recreate from feeds, and we aren't doing financials on it. I've also heard of Reiser having had some problems on SMP systems. Of course, our box hasn't gone down unexpectedly ever, either due to O

Re: [GENERAL] ext3 block size

2003-08-14 Thread DeJuan Jackson
It was RH8 where I saw the issues. It was so bad that I had one server freeze 20 minutes after reboot. And it wasn't a hardware issue; that server is now running with several months of uptime under heavy load. Jonathan Bartlett wrote: What distribution are you running? I and a lot of other pe

[GENERAL] ext3 block size

2003-08-09 Thread Wilson A. Galafassi Jr.
hello. my database size is 5GB. what is the block size recommend? thanks wilson  

Re: [GENERAL] ext3 block size

2003-08-06 Thread DeJuan Jackson
Don't know the answer to your question, but I thought I would just pipe in and say that if this is an SMP (has multiple processors) Linux box you don't want to use ext3!!! I used ext3 on my SMP box here at work and now I can't have children (I guess it would help if I got a wife first)!! But i