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Re: Problem creating 6TB partition...



On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 03:58:27PM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> 
> >Is it an exponential growth in the amount of time it takes?  I've had
> >some XFS partitions that were several hundred GBs (but not close to 1TB)
> >and those seemed to pass the fsck stage very quickly.
> 
> If i remember right, it's 1 gb of memory per TB of space, plus additional 
> memory overhead for X number of inodes.. i have both a large filesystem 
> and millions of hardlinks, so lots of inodes.
> 
Interesting.  The filesystem to which I was referring stays mostly
empty.  That may explain the results I am seeing.

Regards,

-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sánchez
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