Jim Carroll wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone has done any work on fsck and very large file > systems. We have a system that has 126 GB RAID Array. As you can imagine, > fsck chokes trying to alloc enough blocks to store it's internal data > structures (128 MB RAM, 128 MB Swap) > > We would like to treat this array as a single large disk, and was wondering > if anyone else had run into this situation, and had a work around. > > Note: I know we could just partition the array to two smaller systems > (which is what we are planning to do if we can't get past this), but I > thought I'd take a shot and see if anyone else had a work around.
Maybe I'm completely wrong here, but didn't I read somewhere that with softupdates it would theoretically be possible to boot the system before the fsck and fsck while it's running? Can anyone comment on this? Alex -- +--------------------------------+-------------------+ | SMTP: <[email protected]> | E-Gold: 101979 | | ICBM: N52 22.647' E4 51.555' | PGP: 0x1d512a3f | +--------------------------------+-------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
