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Date:      Tue, 8 Apr 2008 14:41:27 -0300
From:      "Alexandre Biancalana" <biancalana@gmail.com>
To:        "Wojciech Puchar" <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Brian McCann <bjmccann@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Large file system creation
Message-ID:  <8e10486b0804081041h28e1f006x34e20c1cbf19849@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080408193543.O26143@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On 4/8/08, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> >
> > > it will be most likely large 32K blocks, so quick fsck and little RAM
> > >
> > >
> >
> > In my experience with UFS2 and fsck you will want to have a gig of ram per
> TB
> > of filesystem.  You can get by with less sometimes, eventually you'll get
> > bit.  Most mere mortals don't take UFS2 past 6-8TB in production.
> >
> > There are of course exceptions....
> >
>
>  you talk about VM, not real memory. i don't think making 10GB swap is a
> problem.

The problem is the time that it will take to fsck a 9TB filesystem.....



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