Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 3:09 PM, justin <justin@emproshunts.com> wrote:
>
>> I chose to use ext3 on these partition
>
> You should really consider another file system. ext3 has two flaws
> that mean I can't really use it properly. A 2TB file system size
> limit (at least on the servers I've tested) and it locks the whole
> file system while deleting large files, which can take several seconds
> and stop ANYTHING from happening during that time. This means that
> dropping or truncating large tables in the middle of the day could
> halt your database for seconds at a time. This one misfeature means
> that ext2/3 are unsuitable for running under a database.
I cannot acknowledge or deny the last one, but the first one is not
true. I have several volumes in the 4TB+ range on ext3 performing nicely.
I can test the "large file stuff", but how large? .. several GB is not a
problem here.
Jesper
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