From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 30 13:42:22 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D330837B401 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 13:42:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2964E43E4A for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 13:42:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h0ULgFov001403; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:42:15 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:42:15 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Ryan Dooley Cc: Attila Nagy , Gerrit K?hn , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems? Message-ID: <20030130214215.GF17299@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030127174127.GD71664@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <20030128110125.GB78630@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <20030128155501.GD78630@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <20030130212410.GB64983@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030130212410.GB64983@elvis.mu.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jan 30), Ryan Dooley said: > > Just try to fsck 1.2 TB and you will be very-very patient :) > > Very patient indeed. I've got a 1.0TB partition about 51% full. > It's still a 4-STABLE system and the last fsck from a crash last > Friday (bad IBM, bad, no soup for you) took just about 55 minutes to > fsck. *ugh* Dropping the number of inodes really helps fsck time; what does "df -i /bigfilesystem" print? > I'm torture testing on a 600GB partition and I was hoping to maybe > roll to 5.x around March. It's probably a good thing that I didn't > jump on it right away :-) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message