Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 12:01:27 -0600 (CST) From: Kris Kirby <kris@hiwaay.net> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystem size limit? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002151159000.20738-100000@barricuda.bsd.nws.net> In-Reply-To: <200002151608.KAA54469@aurora.sol.net>
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> I figured somebody'd have a fast, smart answer :-) Is this one of those "three things, pick two" things? :-) > 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. 10 partitions? How do you accomplish this? BSD disklabel is only 8, and DOS is 4. I could see > 20 this way, but it seems a waste on a *real* machine. (PS: How many procs? How much RAM?) ---- Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. <kris@nospam.hiwaay.net> | ------------------------------------------------------- "God gave them the ability to reproduce... ... Science gave us the hope they won't." -KBK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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