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Date:      Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:01:55 +0000
From:      Geoff Buckingham <geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Max Clark <max.clark@media.net>
Subject:   Re: 20TB Storage System (fsck????)
Message-ID:  <20030904110155.GA35273@chuggalug.clues.com>
In-Reply-To: <3F56F3FD.C636781@mindspring.com>
References:  <ILENIMHFIPIBHJLCDEHKOECFDDAA.max.clark@media.net> <3F56F3FD.C636781@mindspring.com>

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On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 01:12:45AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> Yes.  Limit the number of CG bitmaps you examine simultaneously,
> and make the operation multiple pass over the disk.  This is not
> that hard a modification to fsck, and it can be done fairly
> quickly by anyone who understands the code.  The code in time to
> fsck the disk will go up inversely proportionally to the amount
> of RAM it's allowed to use, which is limited to the UVA size
> minus the fsck program size itself, and the fsck buffers used for
> things like FS metadata for a given file/directory.
> 
> 
Pardon my ignorance but does the number of inodes in the filesystem have a
significant impact on the memory requirement of fsck?

I ask as it was previously stated the smallest file on the 10TB filessytem
would be 500MB which would enable a vastley reduced number of inodes and
possibly very large block fragment and cluster sizes?



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