20TB Storage System

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Sep 3 13:07:29 PDT 2003


In message <3F5647F3.5080502 at he.iki.fi>, Petri Helenius writes:

>fsck problem should be gone with less inodes and less blocks since if
>I read the code correctly, memory is consumed according to used inodes
>and blocks so having like 20000 inodes and 64k blocks should allow
>you to build 5-20T filesystem and actually fsck them.

I am not sure I would advocate 64k blocks yet.

I tend to stick with 32k block, 4k fragment myself.

This is a problem which is in the cross-hairs for 6.x

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