Re: stable xfs

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:11:10AM -0400, Ming Zhang wrote:

> what kind of "ram vs fs" size ratio here will be a safe/good/proper
> one?

it depends very much on what you are doing

> any rule of thumb? thanks!
>
> hope not 1:1. :)

i recent dealt with a corrupted filesystem that xfs_repair needed over
1GB to deal with --- the kicker is the filesystem was only 20GB, so
that's 20:1 for xfs_repair

i suspect that was anomalous though and that some bug or quirk of
their fs cause xfs_repair to behave badly (that said, i'd had to have
to repair an 8TB fs fill of maildir email boxes, which i know some
people have)