[rescue] Re: how to utilize multiple tape drives in the same library/silo with Amanda...

[Dave McGuire]

On July 22, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> >   .5Tb+ filesystems are *insane*, in my opinion.  
> 
> Care to comment on why?

  Mainly (exclusively?) due to crashes.

  Say you have 500GB of data spread across five 100GB filesystems, and a
filesystem gets corrupted.  You have another 500GB of data on ONE
filesystem, and a filesystem gets corrupted.  That's math that even
*I* can handle.

  Second, I'd sooner peel up my fingernails than have to fsck a 500GB
filesystem.

  Now, this is an "old" attitude; many newer filesystem technologies
(i.e. logging filesystems) don't require fscking, and are much MUCH
more resilient in the face of a system crash...but many folks seem to
think that means they're impervious to ANY sort of failure, and can
never become corrupted.  This is simply not true.

        -Dave

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