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Date:      Tue, 15 Feb 2000 15:07:04 -0600 (CST)
From:      Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To:        kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu (Kenny Drobnack)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Filesystem size limit?
Message-ID:  <200002152107.PAA75509@aurora.sol.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1000215155318.29627D-100000@mission.mvnc.edu> from Kenny Drobnack at "Feb 15, 2000  4: 0:46 pm"

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> > 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.
> > 
> > Thanks for the info, I was mostly just curious.
> 
> 	I haven't looked much into fsck, so I have no idea how this is   
> accomplished? Is this a modified copy of fsck that only checks inodes
> marked as used, or is there some other method for doing this (besides a
> journaling fs that is :-)

No.  This is a straight fsck.  30 seconds.  Dirty filesystems.  Just make
sure your amount of metadata that needs checking is reasonably low.

> 	Also, it seems like 64 bit processors will be in use before 1 TB
> filesystems are common. Won't the filesystem need to be 64-bitted for
> that?  

I would guess.  Matt Dillon commented on this already, though, and is much
better suited to having an opinion about it.

... Joe

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