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Date:      Tue, 15 Feb 2000 12:01:27 -0600 (CST)
From:      Kris Kirby <kris@hiwaay.net>
To:        Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Filesystem size limit?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002151159000.20738-100000@barricuda.bsd.nws.net>
In-Reply-To: <200002151608.KAA54469@aurora.sol.net>

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> 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?)

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Kris Kirby, KE4AHR          | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said.
<kris@nospam.hiwaay.net>    |    
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"God gave them the ability to reproduce...
	... Science gave us the hope they won't." -KBK



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