Hello fellow admins,
Following on from Judith Reed's <jreed_at_wukon.appliedtheory.com> summary on
Tue, 04 Aug 1998 regarding "SUMMARY: defragcron causes corruption in ADVFS
filesys?" I was pleased to read that defrag does not leave a file system
in an inconsistent state. However I was alarmed to hear, under certain
conditions, defrag could cause a system panic (not desirable on our main
group server!).
So I was wondering how I could reduced the likelihood of a system panic
(assuming I leave defrag enabled). What are fellow system admin's views on
the following:
1) perform defrag monthly (or weekly)
2) write a wrapper which only perform defrag if the domain is less than
a predefined capacity (any recommendations?) else mail root
3) within "/usr/sbin/defragcron", reduce the "def_defrag_threshold"
value (again, any recommendations?)
4) a mixture of 1), 2) and/or 3)
Any suggestions are welcome. Summary to follow.
Regards,
Rich
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Received on Thu Aug 06 1998 - 11:34:12 NZST