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From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: 3 terabytes on one server? (was Re: more than 32 scsi disks on a single machine ?) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 11 May 1996 17:08:06 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 18:50:08 +0100
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Brian Tao wrote in message ID
<Pine.NEB.3.92.960511170535.14554D-100000@zot.io.org>:
> 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.  ;-)

No, it gives you the incentive to remove the last few problems which
cause FreeBSD to ``exit in an uncontrolled manner'', doesn't it ? :-)
Just think, a few people with 3TB filesystems and we'd be rock solid
:-)

Gary
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Gary Palmer                                            FreeBSD Core Team Member
FreeBSD - Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info.