> > The trick to fsck is that you don't want more inodes than you really need.
>
> > Once you get past that, fsck flies. The previous generation of binaries
> > server, worked on 27 36GB drives split into 10 partitions, designed for
> > parallelism. Hit RESET and the news filesystems take ~30 seconds to fsck.
> >
> > Thanks for the info, I was mostly just curious.
>
> I haven't looked much into fsck, so I have no idea how this is
> accomplished? Is this a modified copy of fsck that only checks inodes
> marked as used, or is there some other method for doing this (besides a
> journaling fs that is :-)
No. This is a straight fsck. 30 seconds. Dirty filesystems. Just make
sure your amount of metadata that needs checking is reasonably low.
> Also, it seems like 64 bit processors will be in use before 1 TB
> filesystems are common. Won't the filesystem need to be 64-bitted for
> that?
I would guess. Matt Dillon commented on this already, though, and is much
better suited to having an opinion about it.
... Joe
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