Re: xfs_check running out of memory

[Nathan Scott <nscott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 15:56 -0700, Fong Vang wrote:
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> xfs_check on one of my 64-bit server keeps running out of memory
> checking a
> 6.5TB file system with millions of files.  xfsprogs is version 2.9.4
> One of
> the man pages online mentions a xfs_check64 version but I can't seem
> to find
> this anyway.  Where can I find this tool?
> 

Thats an IRIX remnant.  On 64 bit Linux systems, xfs_db
(and hence xfs_check) will be built as 64 bit binaries.

Use xfs_repair -n, xfs_check does not scale (and will
hopefully be replaced by xfs_repair -n someday).

-- 
Nathan