Re: size of supervise/ !

> > in case it matters: the filesystem format is jfs on a raid-1 device;

Laurent Bercot wrote:

> A journaled filesystem will probably store every change in some way.

sure! but I'd think that journals were kept somewhere else;

> I suspect that the journalling of the status file has much to do with
> the size of your supervise directory.

as I was just telling Daryl (after reading your message) I'm sure that's
it!

> Check your journals; clean them, if possible and appropriate.

this will take some time as I'm absolute newbie in journaling
filesystems; I'll post back to the list;

> I generally suggest having supervise directories in a tmpfs (or any
> other RAM filesystem).

looks like a great idea! I wonder how you do it...

my first though is to just create symlinks pointing to the ramfs; I
assume supervise will do the rest even in a clean ramfs (after a
reboot); or do I need to do something else?

[]s & thanks!

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