From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 17 14: 8:49 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 48A5237B404; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 14:08:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from goliath.cnchost.com (goliath.cnchost.com [207.155.252.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77F5A43F93; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 14:08:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bakul@bitblocks.com) Received: from bitblocks.com (adsl-209-204-185-216.sonic.net [209.204.185.216]) by goliath.cnchost.com id RAA27811; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 17:08:32 -0500 (EST) [ConcentricHost SMTP Relay 1.15] Message-ID: <200303172208.RAA27811@goliath.cnchost.com> To: Julian Elischer Cc: Bakul Shah , FreeBSD current users , fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone working on fsck? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:56:24 PST." Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 14:08:31 -0800 From: Bakul Shah 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 > You talk like I have a choice :-) > I cannot change ufs/ffs and even if I could the clients wouldn't go for > it. What about changing the size of block size or cyl grp size? Do they change things much? > 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. :-) I am so glad I have a separate machine for every few GB of disk space :-) So may be you can have on a multi-processor solution. I'll try to come up with more useful suggestions given your constraints.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message