From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 1 18:54:40 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3311816A421 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 18:54:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kometen@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2B3013C447 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 18:54:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kometen@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so557176wxd for ; Sun, 01 Jul 2007 11:54:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=dIu8UrQsHD0U4ceVwcLYqUa7Uf1wjlJQZ9DcEveGEuLIxlfvq5kxM6U4f8pH3PceoCGdg65+ivfC3MGkKI1kgIKvTaFkLL+qHDS2aeylYv22255A+xdeGB+L/5VBlr83BvNpttdcjplMbnmkhLXG2dUzEgJMVqgN/LIOkLy7N1g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=r5OVzKpQjFk7xtDiqQNHujEbLLQYLD60JeLNVxGV05X43IwXnJFF06gFuLWVSv7NZ8AQizLfL+83zK26VscrVB0iEmr1vTKvyhdCit8kVsli5pRZzyeatEWhp7/lfuZypbFJAgSvjkHsn02LznxWWpoWj5RqQxC9Nb230Tku/E8= Received: by 10.70.80.14 with SMTP id d14mr6042529wxb.1183316079316; Sun, 01 Jul 2007 11:54:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.72.6 with HTTP; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 11:54:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 20:54:39 +0200 From: "Claus Guttesen" To: "Wojciech Puchar" In-Reply-To: <20070701202709.L64116@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <64b284310706270311j2a6af2f6i6766b483a4b66a5c@mail.gmail.com> <20070701202709.L64116@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: Nguyen Tam Chinh , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: UFS2 optimization for many small files X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:54:40 -0000 > > approx. 15 partitions ranging from 400 GB to 2 TB in size. If the > > server for some reason had crashed the webservers were unable to > > the question is about the reason it crashed... > > > access the nfs-mounted partitions during the period the server did a > > snapshot of a partition, in order to perform a background-fsck and > > thus our website was down. So ufs2 does not scale well. Reasons not related to the nfs-server itself. FreeBSD itself was rock-solid. It was firmware-related on the storage-side. -- regards Claus When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shakespeare