Re: 20TB Storage System

From: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk)
Date: 09/03/03

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    To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 22:07:01 +0200

    In message <3F5647F3.5080502@he.iki.fi>, Petri Helenius writes:

    >fsck problem should be gone with less inodes and less blocks since if
    >I read the code correctly, memory is consumed according to used inodes
    >and blocks so having like 20000 inodes and 64k blocks should allow
    >you to build 5-20T filesystem and actually fsck them.

    I am not sure I would advocate 64k blocks yet.

    I tend to stick with 32k block, 4k fragment myself.

    This is a problem which is in the cross-hairs for 6.x 

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