Journaling File Systems and RAID (was RE: [ale] ext3)

[Davis, Ricardo C.]

I see now ... since I haven't had the opportunity to work with systems that
*needed* 300 GB filesystems I had no idea that a fsck would take that long.

In my cursory research yesterday it appeared that ext3 wasn't at version 1.0
yet...although I may have been looking at an old page.  Are there any other
options for journaling file systems that are a bit more mature than ext3?


-RD



-----Original Message-----
From: Stuffed Crust [mailto:pizza at shaftnet.org]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 12:40 PM
To: Davis, Ricardo C.
Cc: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: Journaling File Systems and RAID (was RE: [ale] ext3)


On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:21:47AM -0400, Davis, Ricardo C. wrote:
> I have storage question.  Why run a journaling file system with RAID 5?
> Isn't this overkill?  What do you gain that you wouldn't with just a RAID
5
> configuration?

RAID is there to prevent against hardware failure killing our storage
systems.  

A journalling filesystem is in use to keep fscks from taking three hours
on a 300G filesystem.

They're both there to solve different problems.

 - Pizza
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