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Date:      Wed, 12 May 1999 11:15:14 -0700 (PWT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Jim Carroll <jim@carroll.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fsck and large file system
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905121113090.22991-100000@feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905122010380.22411-100000@login-1.eunet.no>

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> >  I  was  wondering  if  anyone has done any work on fsck and very large file
> >  systems. We have a system that has 126 GB RAID Array. As you  can  imagine,
> >  fsck  chokes  trying  to  alloc  enough  blocks to store it's internal data
> >  structures (128 MB RAM, 128 MB Swap)

Huh- I remember fixing this for NetBSD. You have to do a setrlimit within
fsck so it can malloc enough space and have enough swap to back that. We
were fsck'ing 600GB+ filesystems.

> 
> >  We would like to treat this array as a single large disk, and was wondering
> >  if anyone else had run into this situation, and had a work around.
> 

I've been doing 120GB+ filesystems for FreeBSD for quite some time. The
real fun will be the 1TB filesystems.






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