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Date:      Sat, 6 Jun 2009 17:41:41 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, jn07texas@yahoo.de
Subject:   Re: fsck on 1.5TB drive
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906061740440.92293@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <4A2A7FC2.5060505@strauser.com>
References:  <56942.76.25.231.251.1244295367.squirrel@webmail.wcubed.net> <4A2A7FC2.5060505@strauser.com>

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>> I just installed 7.2 on a 1.5TB RAID 5. I'm using about 10GB for the
>> system and swap, and the rest for a single large partition to be used for
>> backups.  As of right now, the single partition, /bkup, is empty.
>
> Some will disagree, but this almost screams for ZFS: no fsck, great RAID 
> support, and nearly instant snapshots.  You should check into it.

my 6 disk system with 2 750GB disks, 2 500GB disks and 2 320GB disks does 
fsck in 40 minutes. if you exclude these 320GB disk containing system and 
squid cache (LOTS of files) it takes <5 minutes



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