Re: xfs_repair on large fs: out of memory

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 03:36:06PM -0400, Ed L. Cashin wrote:

> Hi.  In trying to run xfs_repair on a 13 TB filesystem, the program
> either runs out of memory ...

[...]

> This machine has a gigabyte of memory.  It's running an x86_64
> 2.6.16.13 kernel.

I forget the ratio/math for working this out (Steve Lord posted a
summary of this some time ago) but 1GB isn't nearly enough to run
xfs_repair on a moderately sized filesystem.