Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 11:56:10 +0530 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: John Savitsky <john@kspu.kr.ua> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Are huge file systems bad? Message-ID: <20000116115610.E3413@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000114174855.A18612@kspu.kr.ua>; from john@kspu.kr.ua on Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 05:48:55PM %2B0200 References: <002d01bf5d43$845331e0$0a04cfd1@mwci.net> <387CFB4E.827314D9@owp.csus.edu> <20000114174855.A18612@kspu.kr.ua>
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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
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