Re: RHEL ES 4

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>]

evilninja@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Eric Sandeen schrieb:
>
> > Oh, repair on a 300T filesystem -wil-l be painful anywhere, I think, 
> > unfortunately.
>
>
> hm, painful yes, but hopefully not impossible? otherwise if sth. goes 
> wrong on a 300TB fs the only way to fix it would be restoring from 
> backup, no matter how tiny the corruption might be (and xfs_repair could 
> fix it easliy if only the volume was not so big)....

The time & memory requirements for repair on a filesystem of this size are 
currently extremely large... there have been some rules of thumb for 
time/memory requirements on this list before, but I don't have them offhand...

-Eric