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Date:      Mon, 13 May 1996 14:16:33 -0700
From:      "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
Cc:        Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, asami@cs.berkeley.edu
Subject:   Re: 3 terabytes on one server? (was Re: more than 32 scsi disks on a  single machine ?) 
Message-ID:  <199605132116.OAA00293@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 May 1996 16:24:07 EDT." <Pine.NEB.3.92.960513160850.14554U-100000@zot.io.org> 

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> On Mon, 13 May 1996, Joe Greco wrote:
> >
> > Be thankful our newfs is _fast_...  :-)  the one in Slowaris is
> > slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwww...
> 
>     Even Sun rates their fsck at "10 minutes per gigabyte"... that
> would mean a 3-hour fsck on my news server with Solaris.  :-/  OTOH,
> they have ODS 3.0 with journalled file systems which pretty much
> eliminates boot up delays caused by inconsistent filesystems.

OTOH, on my FreeBSD box it takes about 22.5 seconds per GIG which means
that if your news server was on a FreeBSD it will take about 6.75 seconds.

Now if you parallelized your fsck like someone posted here then it should take
less than 2 minutes to fsck 18 gigs 8)

Oh, I have 54000 rpm disks ...

	Enjoy,
	Amancio







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