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Date:      Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:26:17 -0700
From:      Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To:        juri_mian@yahoo.com
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Subject:   Re: 24 TB UFS2 reality check ? 
Message-ID:  <20080708212617.C606C5B75@mail.bitblocks.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:17:57 PDT." <336596.22193.qm@web45608.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> 

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On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:17:57 PDT Juri Mianovich <juri_mian@yahoo.com>  wrote:
> > I vaguely recall it was more like 700MB of memory per
> > Terabyte on a 50% filled UFS2.  Things may have improved
> > in the three years since I did that.  I don't recall the time
> > to fsck but it was pretty bad!  That was the main reason I
> > switched from UFS2.
> 
> Why does fsck need to reserve all that memory in advance and hold it the enti
> re fsck ?  Is it necessary by definition, or could it be written to not requi
> re that ?

May be it can but why bother.  It just feels wrong to have to
check the entire FS state after a crash -- it doesn't scale.



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