On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Claus Niesen <cnie...@gmx.net> wrote: > Thanks to great documentation of OpenBSD (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#LargeDrive) I know that I'm out of luck with default file system (FFS) on OpenBSD. What I'm not sure about is if a different file system on OpenBSD could alleviate the memory issue. Also, would I encounter the same memory requirements for fsck with other operating systems such as the FreeNAS (FreeBSD)?
The memory required to check a filesystem is a function of the things (inodes, directories, ...) in the filesystem that need checking. There's no way around that, regardless of filesystem or operating system. You need a (journaled) filesystem that doesn't need checking. OpenBSD doesn't support any.
