From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 13 06:43:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA21173 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 13 May 1996 06:43:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA21165 for ; Mon, 13 May 1996 06:43:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id IAA04713; Mon, 13 May 1996 08:42:31 -0500 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199605131342.IAA04713@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: 3 terabytes on one server? (was Re: more than 32 scsi disks on a single machine ?) To: taob@io.org (Brian Tao) Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 08:42:31 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, asami@cs.berkeley.edu In-Reply-To: from "Brian Tao" at May 11, 96 05:08:06 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Sat, 11 May 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > > > > I can only imagine the associated 30-day-long fsck. > > If you have 3TB of dirty filesystems chock full of files to check, > it may be prudent to replace fsck with newfs in /etc/rc, if only to > preserve your sanity. ;-) Be thankful our newfs is _fast_... :-) the one in Slowaris is slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwww... There is definitely an advantage in parallelism within your filesystems. It is an impressive sight to see news.sol.net first fsck /, /usr, and then /var, and then watch a dozen drives suddenly chime in with a massively parallel fsck :-) ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968