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Date:      Tue, 8 Apr 2008 19:36:19 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org>
Cc:        Brian McCann <bjmccann@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Alexandre Biancalana <biancalana@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Large file system creation
Message-ID:  <20080408193543.O26143@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <200804081155.42741.josh@tcbug.org>
References:  <2b5f066d0804080539y7884709es46c8fd9cc2342aec@mail.gmail.com> <8e10486b0804080828n1fe401efl79e86108b3ce9fcd@mail.gmail.com> <20080408181945.U24388@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <200804081155.42741.josh@tcbug.org>

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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.





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