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Cc: Brian McCann <bjmccann@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org,
	Alexandre Biancalana <biancalana@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Large file system creation
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>> 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
> of filesystem.  You can get by with less sometimes, eventually you'll get
> bit.  Most mere mortals don't take UFS2 past 6-8TB in production.
>
> There are of course exceptions....

you talk about VM, not real memory. i don't think making 10GB swap is a 
problem.