[Lustre-discuss] e2fsck-wc4 speed

[Samuel Aparicio]

thanks for this. I wonder how much memory would be needed to fsck a 10Tb filesystem. any ideas about this?

Professor Samuel Aparicio BM BCh PhD FRCPath
Nan and Lorraine Robertson Chair UBC/BC Cancer Agency
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On Jul 5, 2012, at 11:31 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:

> 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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