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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