From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 3 23:30:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 502711509E for ; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 23:30:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA18905; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 23:30:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 23:30:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Hans-Christoph Steiner Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What filesystem does ftp.cdrom.com use?(Journaled/Logging?) In-Reply-To: <199906011749.NAA01615@yaga.razorfish.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > We are currently using Linux/ext2fs for our 120GB file server. Everything > works fine when running, but when there is a crash (2.2.4! arg!), it takes > hours to run fsck. I am thinking of switching this machine to FreeBSD because > I have heard rumors that there is a journaled filesystem or a logging > filesystem for FreeBSD. This would greatly help our situation. > Well, we have soft updates, wich concievably shouldn't require fsck, but for the time being it still checks everything (until we're sure it works :-) ). Nicely, with softupdates you won't find any errors. > Basically we are planning to build something like ftp.cdrom.com but geared > towards Samba rather than ftp so I was wondering how they have it set up. I'm not sure how it's set up now, but before it wasn't one huge FS. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message