On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 01:12:45AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Yes. Limit the number of CG bitmaps you examine simultaneously, > and make the operation multiple pass over the disk. This is not > that hard a modification to fsck, and it can be done fairly > quickly by anyone who understands the code. The code in time to > fsck the disk will go up inversely proportionally to the amount > of RAM it's allowed to use, which is limited to the UVA size > minus the fsck program size itself, and the fsck buffers used for > things like FS metadata for a given file/directory. > > Pardon my ignorance but does the number of inodes in the filesystem have a significant impact on the memory requirement of fsck?
I ask as it was previously stated the smallest file on the 10TB filessytem would be 500MB which would enable a vastley reduced number of inodes and possibly very large block fragment and cluster sizes? _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
