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Date:      Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:56:24 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD current users <current@FreeBSD.ORG>, fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Anyone working on fsck? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0303171352260.70394-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <200303172126.QAA23205@thunderer.cnchost.com>

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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. :-)






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