On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 12:45:15PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > I might add that the test filesystem was 95% full with about 8,000,000 > > directories on it. It was populated with multiple copies of /bin > > and /etc as a test set :-) > > How much like you're real file mix does this look? If your real mix > doesn't require this many files it may not be so bad. I've got an 800GB > SCSI-IDE RAID box[0] with a single UFS file system with about 520GB of > mirrors on it and it fscks in ~40min. > > I am still intrested in improvements to fsck since I'm planning to buy > several systems with two 1.4TB IDE RAID5 arrays in them soon. >
For these types of systems doing a block caching layer with a prefetch that understands how many spindles there are would be a huge benefit. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
