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Date:      Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:23:08 +0100 (CET)
From:      Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu>
To:        Gerrit =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= <gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.50.0301281617500.28577-100000@scribble.fsn.hu>
In-Reply-To: <20030128110125.GB78630@pmp.uni-hannover.de>
References:  <20030127174127.GD71664@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <Pine.LNX.4.50.0301281141100.28577-100000@scribble.fsn.hu> <20030128110125.GB78630@pmp.uni-hannover.de>

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Hello,

> 47105 seems to be slightly different from what I saw, because my machine
> never paniced; the fsck just hung forever.
It depends. My machine hangs, there's no panic.

> > I've already written to Kirk McKusick, but it seems that he has a lot
> > of work, because I didn't get answer.
> Ok, then things are already on their way, I guess.
Don't know, but I hope :)

> I wonder if it's only the large filesystem that triggers this problem.
> Actually I think that my 50GB are not /that/ large, and someone else
> should have noticed the problem before.
I wonder what's the common in our case, then.

> BTW: As mentioned in the PR one workaround is to turn off bg fsck. On
> the other hand bg fsck is working fine on smaller filesystems. Is there
> a way to turn bg fsck off for just one partition?
I don't know any. BTW, the big partitions are those which needs the extra
time, so it is very likely that you won't benefit too much from this...

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