On 12/26/2011 05:06 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>>> Disable fs
>>> journaling (normally dangerous, but this is throw-away space).
>>
>> Not really dangerous - the only danger is that you might have to wait
>> for fsck to do it's thing on an unclean shutdown (which can take hours
>> on a full TB scale disk, granted).
>
> I mean dangerous in the sense that if the server goes down, there might
> be data loss, but the builders using the space won't know that. This is
> particularly true if nfs exports are async.
Strictly speaking, journal is about preventing the integrity of the FS
so you don't have to fsck it after an unclean shutdown, not about
preventing data loss as such. But I guess you could argue the two are
related.
Obviously, I meant protecting rather than preventing the integrity. :^)
*facepalm*
Gordan