24 TB UFS2 reality check ?

[Julian Elischer]

Juri Mianovich wrote:
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> --- On Tue, 7/8/08, Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks.com> wrote:
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>> I vaguely recall it was more like 700MB of memory per
>> Terabyte on a 50% filled UFS2.  Things may have improved
>> in the three years since I did that.  I don't recall
>> the time
>> to fsck but it was pretty bad!  That was the main reason I
>> switched from UFS2.
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> Why does fsck need to reserve all that memory in advance and hold it the entire fsck ?  Is it necessary by definition, or could it be written to not require that ?
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it doesn't reserve it .. that's how much data it builds up