[Lustre-discuss] e2fsck-wc4 speed

Brian J. Murrell brian at whamcloud.com
Thu Jul 5 11:31:00 PDT 2012


On 12-07-05 02:20 PM, Samuel Aparicio wrote:
> 
> I wonder if using a scratch file would be any faster than having the system do the paging.

At least with ext4, not in my experience.  I had a machine with a 1TB
(very close to) full ext4 filesystem that I needed to fsck.
Unfortunately this machine was still on a 32-bit kernel so, other than
trying to shoehorn the 64-bit kernel in the only way I could fsck was to
use scratch files since the data structures were too big to fit into the
32-bit architecture's available memory.

I ended up giving up on using scratch files after a day or so of fsck
running and shoehorned the 64-bit kernel in so that it could all be done
in memory.  It only took a few hours at that point.

Cheers,
b.

-- 
Brian J. Murrell
Senior Software Engineer
Whamcloud, Inc.



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