System starvation when running fsck_msdos

2013-12-04 Thread Jeff Ross
Hi all, I have a small server (5.4-current, more or less, dmesg and other pertinent details follow) in an office acting as firewall/samba server. We are trying to use an external USB hard drive as a backup. Because these are windows folk and because this is a server with 512M of ram and

Re: System starvation when running fsck_msdos

2013-12-04 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013, at 05:00 PM, Jeff Ross wrote: Hi all, I have a small server (5.4-current, more or less, dmesg and other pertinent details follow) in an office acting as firewall/samba server. We are trying to use an external USB hard drive as a backup. Because these are windows

Re: System starvation when running fsck_msdos

2013-12-04 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Shawn K. Quinn [skqu...@rushpost.com] wrote: Does an ms-dos file system require far more than the 1MB of ram per 1 GB of disk space that http://openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#LargeDrive suggests? I don't think 1MB RAM per 1GB disk space applies to fsck_msdos, only the fsck for FFS.