Re: xfs_repair on large fs: out of memory

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 03:23:53PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> 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.

I'm not sure this helps, but you got me thinking and I made a quick
test here.

On a near empty 13TB fs (I got bored after copying about 20GB of data
on to it) I see xfs_repair here use a little under 2GB.  Clearly when
it's full this number will be higher.