20TB Storage System

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Sep 3 13:28:43 PDT 2003


In message <3F564DF6.3090200 at he.iki.fi>, Petri Helenius writes:

>You have any insight into the fsck memory consumption? I remember getting
>myself saved quite a long time ago by reducing the number of inodes.

I have not studied it.  I always try to avoid having more than an
order of magnitude more inodes than I need, it also saves fsck time.

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