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Date:      Sun, 16 May 1999 13:48:41 +0000
From:      Alex Le Heux <alexlh@funk.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fsck and large file system
Message-ID:  <373ECCB9.34648FFA@funk.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD.3.91.990512132833.22641E-100000@apollo.carroll.com>

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Jim Carroll wrote:
> 
>  I  was  wondering  if  anyone has done any work on fsck and very large file
>  systems. We have a system that has 126 GB RAID Array. As you  can  imagine,
>  fsck  chokes  trying  to  alloc  enough  blocks to store it's internal data
>  structures (128 MB RAM, 128 MB Swap)
> 
>  We would like to treat this array as a single large disk, and was wondering
>  if anyone else had run into this situation, and had a work around.
> 
>  Note: I know we could just partition  the  array  to  two  smaller  systems
>  (which  is  what  we  are  planning to do if we can't get past this), but I
>  thought I'd take a shot and see if anyone else had a work around.

Maybe I'm completely wrong here, but didn't I read somewhere that with
softupdates it would theoretically be possible to boot the system before
the fsck and fsck while it's running?

Can anyone comment on this?

Alex

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