Re: fsync on large files

Richard Jones (rich@bibliotech.co.uk)
Mon, 01 Mar 1999 10:58:15 +0000

hagopiar@vuser.vu.union.edu wrote:
>
> On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Richard Jones wrote:
>
> > Extrapolating using an *extremely dodgy* linear
> > approximation gives the following estimates:
> >
> > 50% 40m (2400s)
> > 90% 66m40s (4000s)
>
> That's too nice, or you have faster HDs than I did... I had a 30GB RAID-5
> that when at about 80-90% full took over an hour to fsck.

Or a faster processor/bus/...?

The times are relative, not absolute.

Rich.

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