From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 7 14:25:32 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96F9C106566B for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 14:25:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rickvanderzwet@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com (mail-yx0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AF5D8FC0C for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 14:25:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxl31 with SMTP id 31so499179yxl.13 for ; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:25:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:from:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id :subject:to:content-type; bh=DQR8yORF8jrUyXsl1glNDShpoa/+bJzGk8UUXsxdWmQ=; b=q2sHD4eaueKJHQ8nLDA8VLur1YL0iPoiBRvZrSEmlFSSQq7X+WmgU+geLULTBc8NcE OHgO9lOqoZDTUlBnWbf5e0J65dDOVp/MNbzJufiitqDqMNLGw8hhpX+lT2fcTYM3Fwf6 3kb7spJN/ZSzp3R1maugl10SSq5DBJV7nWc9Q= Received: by 10.236.190.73 with SMTP id d49mr1012417yhn.517.1310047092067; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 06:58:12 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: rickvanderzwet@gmail.com Received: by 10.236.161.106 with HTTP; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 06:57:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick van der Zwet Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 15:57:52 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ts002m5kDUE1-7PCRnjy1r6VimU Message-ID: To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: fsck_ufs a 2TB partition with 256MB RAM stalls X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:25:32 -0000 I want to build a file server with limited power usage, so I got myself an ALIX alix2d13 which has 256MB DDR RAM. I connected a 2TB USB2.0 disk to the alix2d13 to be used as storage. The file system gets corrupted due to power failure, which is likely going to happen when running Solar Power in The Netherlands, I cannot fix it anymore cause the fsck_ufs never to complete. This actually makes sense as the recommendation [1] says ``1TB storage needs 1GB of RAM for fsck_ufs''. I can partition my disk in 16 parts of 128GB to work around the matter, but I rather keep one large partition. Any recommendations of getting this solved or will the smaller partitions be my only friend? Br. /Rick [1] http://groups.google.com/group/lucky.freebsd.stable/msg/4f1dcc954ecb7392 -- http://rickvanderzwet.nl