Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > I don't know about all of you, but for the last few years I've been > > running out of partitions! It's even worse with today's big disks. > > I know it's not the answer, it's just related question: do you know > perhaps of any initiatives (except XFS) that could significantly shorten > time it takes fsck to check big filesystems, let's say 64GB? As it is now, > it's almost unbearable. I naively thought softupdates would (almost) > eliminate the need to do fsck...
The UFS checkpointing stuff Kirk is working on is supposed to be the magic bullet that fixes this. XFS will be kinda neat too. - mark ---- Mark Newton Email: new...@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: new...@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82232999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
