Re: 700GB Volume Support

[Peter Hessler <phessler_(_at_)_theapt_(_dot_)_org>]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 03:43:02PM -0500, Chuck Yerkes wrote:
:Quoting Ted Unangst (tedu_(_at_)_zeitbombe_(_dot_)_org):
:> On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Roy Morris wrote:
:...
:> you'll want to keep that box from crashing :).  700gb file systems require 
:> about 700 mb of ram to fsck, and it will take several hours, depending on 
:> number of files.
:
:Hmmm, this is where that FFS2 stuff comes in really handy.
:"/dev/da1s4 marked dirty.  I'll fsck it later, in the meatime, use
:                           a tasty snapshot"
:

I fake background fsck with a 108G drive.  I have it not auto fsck on boot, 
and added:

(sleep 30; fsck -p /dev/wd1a && mount /export && mount -a ) &

to the end of my /etc/rc.local.  That mount is not nessesary for 
normal use, of course.  /etc/fstab for that mount has a 6th field of 
"0".  On an unclean boot, it fscks all of the other partitions, then 
errors (but continues with regular boot) on /export.