From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 15 10: 7: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from server1.huntsvilleal.com (www.huntsvilleal.com [207.13.224.7]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91AB94AFB for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 10:01:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from barricuda.bsd.nws.net (kris.huntsvilleal.com [207.13.224.46]) by server1.huntsvilleal.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA16993; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 12:45:17 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by barricuda.bsd.nws.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA21122; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 12:01:28 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kris@hiwaay.net) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 12:01:27 -0600 (CST) From: Kris Kirby To: Joe Greco Cc: Peter Wemm , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystem size limit? In-Reply-To: <200002151608.KAA54469@aurora.sol.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I figured somebody'd have a fast, smart answer :-) Is this one of those "three things, pick two" things? :-) > The trick to fsck is that you don't want more inodes than you really need. > Once you get past that, fsck flies. The previous generation of binaries > server, worked on 27 36GB drives split into 10 partitions, designed for > parallelism. Hit RESET and the news filesystems take ~30 seconds to fsck. 10 partitions? How do you accomplish this? BSD disklabel is only 8, and DOS is 4. I could see > 20 this way, but it seems a waste on a *real* machine. (PS: How many procs? How much RAM?) ---- Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. | ------------------------------------------------------- "God gave them the ability to reproduce... ... Science gave us the hope they won't." -KBK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message