On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 05:26:25PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Marc MERLIN <m...@merlins.org> wrote: > > > > > I already have 24GB of RAM in that machine, adding more for the real > > fsck repair to run, is going to be difficult and ndb would take days I > > guess (then again I don't have a machine with 32 or 48 or 64GB of RAM > > anyway). > > If you can acquire an SSD, you can give the system a bunch of swap, > and at least then hopefully the check repair can complete. Yes it'll > be slower than with real RAM but it's not nearly as bad as you might > think it'd be, based on HDD based swap.
Oh, swap will work, you're sure? I already have an SSD, if that's good enough, I can give it a shot. Thanks, Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html