From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 17 13:56:29 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 3EE6737B401; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:56:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9035C43F3F; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:56:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from interjet.elischer.org (12-232-168-4.client.attbi.com[12.232.168.4]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51) with ESMTP id <20030317215627051004i5b8e>; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 21:56:27 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA71343; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:56:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:56:24 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Bakul Shah Cc: FreeBSD current users , fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone working on fsck? In-Reply-To: <200303172126.QAA23205@thunderer.cnchost.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Bakul Shah wrote: > Anyway, support for all of these have to be done in the > filesystem first before fsck can benefit. yep > If instead you spend time "optimizing" just fsck, you will > likely make it far more complex (and potentially harder to > get right). You talk like I have a choice :-) I cannot change ufs/ffs and even if I could the clients wouldn't go for it. The problem space is Fsck of UFS/FFS partitions is too slow for 200GB+ filesystems. The solution space can not contain any answer that includes redefining UFS/FFS. Welcome to the real world. :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message