Hi,
One our 120 GB RAID disk, mkfs took abt 10 seconds and of course recovery
of a crashed fs is nearly instantaneous when compared to fsck.Also the file
system is extremely stable when bombared with single files as large as 3 GB:-)
Dont think one can ask for much more.
Cheers,
Arun
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On 3 Oct 2001 at 4:03pm, Dave Sill wrote
>
> > I've got a 200GB h/w RAID 5 that I want to convert from e2fs to
> > XFS. It takes ~8 hours to fsck it now. About how long will it take to
> > newfs as XFS?
>
> mkfs will take about 5 seconds (if that). Ditto for recovery after a hard
> crash (as witnessed by me when the system drive of the box hosting my
> 560GB h/w RAID died). Does that work for you? ;)
>
> --
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University
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