comments on newfs raw disk ? Safe ? (7 terabyte array)

[Randy Bush]

> On 02/14/07 00:48, Randy Bush wrote:
>> 4TB
>> newfs  -b 16384 -f 2048 -i 262144
>> 
>> # time fsck -y /dev/da1
>> ** /dev/da1
>> ** Last Mounted on /mnt
>> ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
>> ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
>> ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
>> ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
>> ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
>> 2 files, 2 used, 2173822273 free (17 frags, 271727782 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation)
>> 
>> ***** FILE SYSTEM MARKED CLEAN *****
>> 
>> real    8m58.571s
>> user    0m31.769s
>> sys     0m1.246s
> 
> Perfect.. Now, if you could only leave it empty, your fscks would take 
> no time at all!! :)

sorry.  forgot to remention that this is a backup store for a dozen
systems' rdump/restores.  so it will have a few hundred large files.
so we do not expect fsck time to go radically gigh.

randy