bin/111146: fsck fails on 6T filesystem

[mjacob at freebsd.org]

If you're going to newfs the array at this point, can you do a binary 
search starting from 1.8TB to find the size for you that fsck fails to 
work?

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Dan D Niles wrote:

> The following reply was made to PR bin/111146; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Dan D Niles <dan at more.net>
> To: Astrodog <astrodog at gmail.com>
> Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: bin/111146: fsck fails on 6T filesystem
> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:29:29 -0500
>
> On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 08:13 -0500, Astrodog wrote:
> > How much memory do you have in this system? There is a minimum ammount
> > of memory required to fsck large filesystems, I've found.
> >
> > --- Harrison Grundy
>
> I only have 3G at the moment, but fsck is failing when the resulting
> memory usage would be 2.3G.  I have MAXDSIZ and DFLDSIZE set to 2.8G.
> I have 2G of swap space, none of which gets used.
>
> I'm getting a little pressure to reformat the array.  Is there any
> debugging you would like me to do?
>
> Thanks for your response,
>
> Dan D Niles
>
>
>
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