Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 11:37:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, bde@zeta.org.au, current@freebsd.org, nisha@cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: more than 32 scsi disks on a single machine ? Message-ID: <199605111637.LAA03488@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <5742.831831885@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at May 11, 96 04:24:45 pm
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> > * So how big is the filesystem that you're trying to make ? :-) > > > > Three terabytes. (Hey stop laughing) > > counts on fingers "kilo", "mega", "giga", "tera" > hmmm thats 3*2^(10*4) = 3298534883328 bytes > > not bad. > > What for ? > > "USEnet -- The complete works ?" :-) I can only imagine the associated 30-day-long fsck. Hmm, ok, well maybe not that long, but it would require an impressive machine :-) Let's see, it takes an average 5-10 min to do an fsck on a dirty 2GB news filesystem (probably closer to 5), so for 1500 times that amount of disk space, 7500 minutes.. 125 hours.. 5 days. Assuming fsck doesn't have to swap. ... JG
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