Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:09:34 -0500 (EST) From: Ensel Sharon <user@dhp.com> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: please help - explanation for odd fsck times/behavior needed Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0603141206140.8684-100000@shell.dhp.com> In-Reply-To: <4416F7A7.90800@centtech.com>
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On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Eric Anderson wrote: > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > > Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> writes: > > =20 > >> Ok, thanks for the insight. Someone with a commit wand should wave > >> it over fsck(8): > >> =20 > > > > No, the man page is correct. There's just no point in using more than > > two passes unless you have so little memory that fsck starts swapping. > > You'll notice that sysinstall puts everything except / in pass 2 in > > the fstab it generates when you install. > > =20 >=20 > Or you have such large partitions, that you need the entire amount of=20 > memory to fsck a single filesystem at all.=20 Funny you should mention it, because you don't even need a large partition to do that ... my 400 gigabyte partition (sorry folks, 400 GB is _not_ large) requires this: add the line: kern.maxdsiz=3D"1024000000" to /boot/loader.conf So anyway, not only are passes > 2 possibly useful, you don't even need a big partition to have them be possibly useful ...
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