fsck memory usage

[Julian Elischer]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Brooks Davis wrote:

> Does anyone have a formula to give fsck memory requirements based on
> disk size and newfs arguments.  I'm going to be building some large
> (3.3TB) file systems and I'd like to figure out if I'm going to need
> to go 64-bit to have sufficent address space to fsck them.  The mean
> filesize will be pretty big so I will be able to set bytes/i-node
> fairly high.

I needed 700MB of memory in teh fsck process to be able to fsck a 1 TB
filesystem.
(actually that's what I needed for pass 1.. I ended up 
splitting it into 2 smaller ones after fsck's
first 2 hours only got to pass 2..)



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