Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 8 Apr 2008 11:55:31 -0500
From:      Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, Brian McCann <bjmccann@gmail.com>, Alexandre Biancalana <biancalana@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Large file system creation
Message-ID:  <200804081155.42741.josh@tcbug.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080408181945.U24388@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
References:  <2b5f066d0804080539y7884709es46c8fd9cc2342aec@mail.gmail.com> <8e10486b0804080828n1fe401efl79e86108b3ce9fcd@mail.gmail.com> <20080408181945.U24388@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--nextPart2778377.eeWIjNFZRv
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Disposition: inline

On Tuesday 08 April 2008 11:20:58 am Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >> That looks like what I need.  I've got a seperate 32GB array to boot
> >>  off of, so that's perfect.  Now to just read some man pages.  Thanks!
> >
> > How many memory do you have in this machine ?? To fsck 9 TB you will
>
> there is swap too . but my 1.4TB partition can be fsck'ed on 1GB RAM
> without swap.
>
> > need a LOT of memory....
>
> depends of block sized and inode counts.
>
> it will be most likely large 32K blocks, so quick fsck and little RAM
>

In my experience with UFS2 and fsck you will want to have a gig of ram per =
TB=20
of filesystem.  You can get by with less sometimes, eventually you'll get=20
bit.  Most mere mortals don't take UFS2 past 6-8TB in production.

There are of course exceptions....

=2D-=20
Thanks,

Josh Paetzel

PGP: 8A48 EF36 5E9F 4EDA 5A8C 11B4 26F9 01F1 27AF AECB

--nextPart2778377.eeWIjNFZRv
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc 
Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD)

iEYEABECAAYFAkf7o44ACgkQJvkB8Sevrsu17wCdHACxVQG0qyFKiffZcwoEtbMc
z7kAnRadI1O6MvfAdU/3sO2baoduwCYP
=Bpnp
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--nextPart2778377.eeWIjNFZRv--



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200804081155.42741.josh>