On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 11:35:32PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote:
> On Feb 10 17:48:22, na...@mips.inka.de wrote:
> > On 2015-02-10, yary <not....@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I know FFS2 can handle that size easily, but I'm worried about fsck
> > > taking forever. This machine will have 1.5GB RAM, from what I've read
> > > that's not enough memory to fsck a 4TB volume without painful
> > > swapping.
> >
> > It vastly depends on the number of files you have on there.
>
> And if you know in advance that the files will be large
> ("video editing"?) and there will not be many of them,
> you might benefit from 'newfs -i' (and other options)
> when creating the file system.
For that application, I recommed use the largest block and fragment
size as well (this has also the effect of creating less inodes). Less
metadata means faster checking.
-Otto
