On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 10:45:55PM +0300, Antti Harri wrote: > I have a 3.8 machine with millions of files. The > exact number of files varies a lot but it's always more than 5M. > One day I had a power failure and I had to wait > for fsck to complete on reboot. Fsck took more > than two hours! At that time there were 8,8M files on > the drive. Is there any way to make fsck go faster? >
Help implementing background fsck... ;-) > The machine is AMD Athlon 1700+ with 200G Seagate > Barracuda on SATA slot. Unfortunately I cannot get > dmesg at this point but I don't think that's necessary. > Kernel is 3.8 GENERIC and there is one large ffs partition > on the SATA disc, roughly the size of 180G. Most of the files > (approximately 90%) are hardlinks. Disc usage is somewhere > between 30G and 170G. > > Any pointers will be appreciated, thanks in advance! > With background fsck and sane partitioning one would have minimal downtime. At the moment we can't do that as our FFS has no support background (yet?). With kind regards Simon
