creating a new 80 TB XFS

[Emmanuel Florac]

Le Sat, 25 Feb 2012 20:57:05 -0600 vous écriviez:

> As others mentioned, an xfs_[check|repair] can take many hours or even
> days on a multi-terabyte huge metadata filesystem. 

Just nitpicking, but I never had such a problem. I've run quite a lot
of xfs_repair on 40TB+ filesystems, and it rarely was longer than 10 to
20 minutes. The important part is having enough RAM if the system hits
swap it makes the check much slower).

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