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What's the Damage? Measuring fsck Under XFS and Ext4 On Big Storage

Posted by timothy on from the disks-groaning-with-shame dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Enterprise Storage Forum's long-awaited Linux file system Fsck testing is finally complete. Find out just how bad the Linux file system scaling problem really is."

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  1. Re:fsck speed, want safety by h4rr4r · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you need to fsck you should already be restoring from backups onto another machine.

  2. Re:fsck speed, want safety by rickb928 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    More helpful advice from the Linux community. Thank you ever so much, once again right on point, timely, and effective.

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  3. Re:linux is fail by gweihir · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A cranky coward from the shadows is not s reliable source of information.

    I have used AIX and Solaris, and I can say that a lot of stuff is easier on Linux.

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  4. Re:fsck speed, want safety by chuckymonkey · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You're fairly wrong there, you can actually back that much data up. You just have to be willing to pay for some seriously large tape libraries and they're not cheap. We're in the process of installing a 700TB array with a 1.5PB tape library backup. You just have to do the backups using filesystem snapshots and run them pretty much constantly.

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