Hi Peter, thanks for caring. Peter Albrecht wrote
Would moving to XFS be an option for you? Just put /boot on a separate partion formatted with ext3 and all the other partitions/LVs with XFS.
we tried XFS with SLE 11 GA but dropped it again for two reasons: First it was really a lot slower in our kind of access patterns (self-written bioinformatic programs in Java, running in a grid). Second, we had problems when a server failed to cleanly unmount the system during a reboot (no idea why that happened, I guess it was a fibre channel problem). When the system came up again it had errors on the file systems and the repair of the 12 TB FS really went bad with certain directories gone or moved to lost+found. We never saw that with ext3 or even ext4. It might be a very special circumstance in our environment that triggered this, but it was a hassle. Another nice feature with ext4 is online shrinking which we know we will need some times when shrinking one raid with 1 TB disks to enlarge the other one with 2 TB disks in the same JBOD. I might try to run the openSuSE 11.2 installer (which I think supports ext4) and make it install the SLE 11 SP1 software. That might work, at least sth. like that worked with SLE 10 and SuSE 10.1). cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. * -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org