Re: fsck is dead (was: Some very thought-provoking ...)
Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 24 Jun 1999 00:16:27 +0200
Malcolm Beattie wrote:
> He said that ext2 fsck right *now* would take 3
> hours for a 100GB filesystem. I replied saying that I'd benchmarked
> it at 13 minutes for a 75% full 43GB filesystem (and I now have 4 such
> filesystems attached to our mail server cluster). Within a year, I
> expect to see journalling support for ext2. Within that year, I don't
> expect any system crashes and, if there is a crash, I find 13 minutes
> to be an acceptable fsck time given the other advantages of the Linux
> mail cluster.
I find the 5 minutes for my 75% full 6.4GB filesystem tedious but ok.
If fsck time were linear, the same system would take 33.5 minutes for 43GB.
Does this mean fsck times don't scale linearly with disk size?
-- Jamie
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