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Date:      Mon, 13 May 1996 16:24:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
To:        Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
Cc:        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:  <Pine.NEB.3.92.960513160850.14554U-100000@zot.io.org>
In-Reply-To: <199605131342.IAA04713@brasil.moneng.mei.com>

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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.

> 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  :-)

    Waitaminute.... does it do this by default?  It takes 10 minutes
to fsck the news server filesystems, and I'm pretty sure it only does
one drive at a time.  It would be great if multiple fsck's could run
in parallel.  Maybe my /etc/fstab isn't setup correctly?

/dev/sd0a       /                               ufs     rw 1 1
/dev/sd0s1e     /usr                            ufs     rw 1 1
/dev/sd0s1f     /var                            ufs     rw 1 1
/dev/sd1s1e     /usr/local                      ufs     rw 1 1
/dev/sd2s1e     /var/spool/news                 ufs     rw 1 1
/dev/sd3s1e     /var/spool/news/alt             ufs     rw 1 1
/dev/sd4s1e     /var/spool/news/alt/binaries    ufs     rw 1 1
/dev/sd5s1e     /var/spool/news/over.db         ufs     rw 1 1
/dev/sd6s1e     /var/spool/news/comp            ufs     rw 1 1
/dev/sd6s1f     /var/spool/news/soc             ufs     rw 1 1
/dev/sd7s1e     /var/spool/news/misc            ufs     rw 1 1
/dev/sd7s1f     /var/spool/news/rec             ufs     rw 1 1
/dev/sd8s1e     /var/spool/news/out.going       ufs     rw 1 1
/dev/sd8s1f     /var/spool/uucp                 ufs     rw 1 1

/dev/sd0s1b     none                            swap    sw 0 0
/dev/sd2s1b     none                            swap    sw 0 0

proc            /proc                           procfs  rw 0 0

--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net)
Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"




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