Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:59:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers List <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16 Message-ID: <199908242259.PAA19193@apollo.backplane.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908250045130.61896-100000@freja.webgiro.com>
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: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...
:
:Andrzej Bialecki
Eventually Kirk is planning for softupdates to allow you to run a special
version of fsck in the background to clean up the block bitmap on a live
filesystem. The time frame for this project is not known.
Another possibility would be to mark individual cylinders clean/dirty
to reduce the amount of work fsck must do on a normal filesystem. It
would be a pretty hefty project for someone to take on, though.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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