Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 08:42:31 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: taob@io.org (Brian Tao) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, asami@cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: 3 terabytes on one server? (was Re: more than 32 scsi disks on a single machine ?) Message-ID: <199605131342.IAA04713@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960511170535.14554D-100000@zot.io.org> from "Brian Tao" at May 11, 96 05:08:06 pm
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> On Sat, 11 May 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > > > > I can only imagine the associated 30-day-long fsck. > > If you have 3TB of dirty filesystems chock full of files to check, > it may be prudent to replace fsck with newfs in /etc/rc, if only to > preserve your sanity. ;-) Be thankful our newfs is _fast_... :-) the one in Slowaris is slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwww... There is definitely an advantage in parallelism within your filesystems. It is an impressive sight to see news.sol.net first fsck /, /usr, and then /var, and then watch a dozen drives suddenly chime in with a massively parallel fsck :-) ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968
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