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Date:	Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:26:16 -0800
From:	"Daniel Taylor" <Daniel.Taylor@....com>
To:	unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)
Cc:	<linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: fsck performance.

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-ext4-owner@...r.kernel.org 
> [mailto:linux-ext4-owner@...r.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Rogier Wolff
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 11:30 PM
> To: Andreas Dilger
> Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: fsck performance.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 03:24:18PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> 
...
> 
> Second: e2fsck is too fragile as it is. It should be able to handle
> big filesystems on little systems. I have a puny little 2GHz Athlon
> system that currently has 3T of disk storage and 1G RAM. Embedded
> Linux systems can be running those amounts of storage with only 64
> or 128 Mb of RAM. 

I have to second this comment.  One of our NAS has 256 MBytes of RAM
(and they wanted 64) with a 3TB disk, 2.996TB of which is an EXT4 file
system.  With our 2.6.32.11 kernel and e2fsprogs version  1.41.3-1,
all I get is a segfault when I run fsck.ext4.

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