Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 08:24:13 +0930 (CST) From: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au> To: abial@webgiro.com (Andrzej Bialecki) Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16 Message-ID: <199908242254.IAA12795@gizmo.internode.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908250045130.61896-100000@freja.webgiro.com> from "Andrzej Bialecki" at Aug 25, 99 00:48:11 am
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Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > I don't know about all of you, but for the last few years I've been > > running out of partitions! It's even worse with today's big disks. > > I know it's not the answer, it's just related question: do you know > perhaps of any initiatives (except XFS) that could significantly shorten > time it takes fsck to check big filesystems, let's say 64GB? As it is now, > it's almost unbearable. I naively thought softupdates would (almost) > eliminate the need to do fsck... The UFS checkpointing stuff Kirk is working on is supposed to be the magic bullet that fixes this. XFS will be kinda neat too. - mark ---- Mark Newton Email: newton@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: newton@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82232999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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