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On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 9:32 AM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Time for plan B. I expect a drive purchase soon. $$$ Heck, it would |
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> be faster to do backups, redo the whole thing and copy it all back. I |
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> could copy it in chunks. First chunk gets me running and then copy |
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> remaining stuff. Hmmmmm. |
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If you start having large volumes of data it probably makes sense to |
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split that off and handle it differently. I am storing my large stuff |
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on lizardfs for this reason (though if starting today I'd take another |
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look at moosefs or ceph). When you don't care so much about IOPS, or |
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efficiency of small files, there are a lot of constraints you can |
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avoid with ext4. Distributed filesystems also have scaling benefits |
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because you don't have to try to cram your 10 hard drives into a |
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single host. |
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Ext4 can be grown online, but it can't be shrunk online. When you |
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start getting to large filesystems you need to consider |
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backup/restoration time and if you want availability you really want |
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solutions that feature RAID and which can do all the operations you |
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need online. Simply having a backup might not be satisfactory if your |
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backup requires dozens of hours to restore, except as a last resort. |
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Rich |