New box, memory problem

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 8:26 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Debatable; there are several thing to consider:
>
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 7:52 AM, compdoc <compdoc at hotrodpc.com> wrote:
>>
>> >* Consider disabling journalling on filesystems on SSD.
>>
>> I feel this is bad advice:
>>
>> "A journaling file system is a file system that keeps track of changes
>> not yet committed to the file system's main part by recording the
>> intentions of such changes in a data structure known as a "journal", which
>> is usually a circular log. In the event of a system crash or power failure,
>> such file systems can be brought back online more quickly with lower
>> likelihood of becoming corrupted."
>>
>> Yeah, I like the fast fsck you get on a journaled file system.  I don't
> want to think of how long it would take to fsck my 11-TB RAID without
> journaling.
>
Sorry, wasn't thinking.  The RAID is not on SSD.  Still, I see no
particular advantage to disabling journals, and some considerable benefits.


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