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On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:08:50 -0400
kpneal@pobox.com wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 04:07:31PM -0400, illoai@gmail.com wrote:

> > You're talking about a single filesystem of 16TB?  Well, depending
> > on how you plan to use it, that might work.  It will probably take
> > several GB of memory to fsck such a monster.
> 
> Background fsck with SU+J may be an option.

Background fsck and SU+J are alternatives.

>  Foreground fsck will
> indeed take quite a while. Personally, I don't have a good feeling
> about using background fsck. 

SU+J has a worse reputation.

UFS2 with gjournal would avoid the fsck problem if for some reason
the OP doesn't want to go with ZFS.