Large file system creation

[Alexandre Biancalana]

On 4/8/08, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> >
> > > it will be most likely large 32K blocks, so quick fsck and little RAM
> > >
> > >
> >
> > In my experience with UFS2 and fsck you will want to have a gig of ram per
> TB
> > of filesystem.  You can get by with less sometimes, eventually you'll get
> > bit.  Most mere mortals don't take UFS2 past 6-8TB in production.
> >
> > There are of course exceptions....
> >
>
>  you talk about VM, not real memory. i don't think making 10GB swap is a
> problem.

The problem is the time that it will take to fsck a 9TB filesystem.....