From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 15 23:47:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A58D14D00 for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 23:47:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (m21.chn.vsnl.net.in [202.54.43.226] (may be forged)) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA00300; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 18:17:05 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA03574; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 11:56:10 +0530 (IST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 11:56:10 +0530 From: Greg Lehey To: John Savitsky Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Are huge file systems bad? Message-ID: <20000116115610.E3413@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <002d01bf5d43$845331e0$0a04cfd1@mwci.net> <387CFB4E.827314D9@owp.csus.edu> <20000114174855.A18612@kspu.kr.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000114174855.A18612@kspu.kr.ua>; from john@kspu.kr.ua on Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 05:48:55PM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 14 January 2000 at 17:48:55 +0200, John Savitsky wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 02:08:14PM -0800, Joseph Scott wrote: >> >> Sean Heber wrote: >>> >>> 1) Are huge file systems bad? I have concatenated two large drives >>> together using vinum. The resulting file system is 50Gig. >>> >> >> 1. Large file systems themselves are not a problem in BSD. Several >> people have reported having very large file systems on FreeBSD. ( IE >> : 100G or so ). > > Ok. What time should I wait until my 100GB partition runing > fsck? It depends on the number of files and the kind of disk, so it's difficult to specify a time. I wouldn't be surprised if it took an hour or two. > Another words: what technique should I use to avoid such problems > with that big partitions? Journaling FS? Don't crash. Currently we don't have a journalling file system. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message