From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 15 14: 2:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from aurora.sol.net (aurora.sol.net [206.55.65.76]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 838AD4CBB for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 13:06:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by aurora.sol.net (8.9.2/8.9.2/SNNS-1.02) id PAA75509; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 15:07:04 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <200002152107.PAA75509@aurora.sol.net> Subject: Re: Filesystem size limit? In-Reply-To: from Kenny Drobnack at "Feb 15, 2000 4: 0:46 pm" To: kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu (Kenny Drobnack) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 15:07:04 -0600 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message