Re: fsck performance on large RAID arrays ?

[Alvin Starr]

On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Alvin Oga wrote:

> hi benno
> 
> I have a hardware raid controller running off a P2-200
> with 64Gb of disk...99% full... and it takes
> about 45 min to e2fsck it when it goes down dirty...
> and takes about 10 min to mount it if it's clean
> 
> - think software raids would be worst ?

I remember seeing some raid performance statistics that showed software
raid running faster than some hardware raid systems.

Overall what your info proves is that there is need for a new file system
format for very large file systems.


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