20 to 30 mins is a long time, but it's to be expected for an unclean
shutdown....
What journalling filesystem are we thinking of? Hopefully we don't have
to loose the advantages we have built up the ext2..... perhaps it will be
ext3?
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Richard Jones wrote:
> Benno Senoner wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > does anyone of you know how long it takes,
> > to e2fsck (after an unclean shutdown) for example a soft-raid5 array of
> > a total size of about 40-50 GB
> > ( example : 6 disk with 9GB (UW SCSI) )
> > assume the machine is a PII300 - PII400
> >
> > assume that the raid-array is almost filled with data (so that e2fsck
> > takes longer)
>
> This is affected by so many different factors,
> that it's really impossible for me to give an
> estimate for your machine. However, as a guide,
> our machine was:
>
> P-II 233 MHz
> 256 MB RAM
> 6 * UltraDMA drives with measured throughput
> of 16 MBytes/sec
> RAID space: 42 GB after formatting
>
> with the drive about 20% full we had fsck times of
> 20 mins and 33% full of about 30 mins. In both cases,
> mounting a clean filesystem took about 2 mins.
>
> Which just goes to show that ext2 is not a suitable
> filesystem for large disk arrays. Roll on journalling
> in 2.3, I say!
>
> Rich.
>
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