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Date:      Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:40:22 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Inode density for database machines - newfs -i
Message-ID:  <f4kfg8$3t2$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <cone.1181595086.390147.8020.5001@35st.simplicato.com>
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Francisco Reyes wrote:
> Ivan Voras writes:
>=20
>> How long fsck takes depends on the number of used inodes, not the tota=
l
>> number. Barring a bug in UFS, you should be able to have as little
>> inodes as you want, especially if you know for sure what number to
>> expect.
>=20
> "man tuning" says otherwise.

As Rick already clarified, this is a side-effect of UFS2. Actually, fsck
for UFS2 will need to check all "initialized" inodes, e.g. if you had a
file, then deleted it, that inode will still need to be checked, but
never-initialized nodes won't.

tuning(7) probably wasn't updated.



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