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Date:      Thu, 27 Mar 2014 12:02:08 +0000
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re:  file systems
Message-ID:  <20140327120208.522373e0@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140327010850.GA33907@neutralgood.org>
References:  <CANMDHqeqQwuub4CeQKhEGss2Z%2BACzwrsiyMDG3c7mfPunwrpNA@mail.gmail.com> <CAHHBGko4p_Lgrcb4_NmRJUfStfKnPudohZWVMSGfMAYMibMgHg@mail.gmail.com> <20140327010850.GA33907@neutralgood.org>

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On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:08:50 -0400
kpneal@pobox.com wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 04:07:31PM -0400, illoai@gmail.com wrote:

> > You're talking about a single filesystem of 16TB?  Well, depending
> > on how you plan to use it, that might work.  It will probably take
> > several GB of memory to fsck such a monster.
> 
> Background fsck with SU+J may be an option.

Background fsck and SU+J are alternatives.

>  Foreground fsck will
> indeed take quite a while. Personally, I don't have a good feeling
> about using background fsck. 

SU+J has a worse reputation.

UFS2 with gjournal would avoid the fsck problem if for some reason
the OP doesn't want to go with ZFS. 



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