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Fedora Core 2 available today!



On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 03:45:06PM +0000, dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 12:29:46AM +0900, Derek Martin wrote:
> > On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 11:08:30AM -0400, Matthew Valites wrote:
> > > It seems to me that having a 1TB partition may not be the smartest 
> > > setup.  Ever consider how long that would take to fsck?  
> > 
> > It doesn't matter, if you need it.  :)
> 
> If you need a terabyte of storage:
> 
> case 1: data is important. You use a RAID system with spare hot-swap
> disks, and run backups to an off-site location regularly. (Production
> systems, vital resources)

Indeed.  But this doesn't affect the length of time the FS will
require to complete an fsck...  If the filesystem is not unmounted
cleanly (as will happen sometimes if the system crashes for whatever
reason), it will be marked dirty and the OS will automatically fsck it
on the next boot.  As long as this takes, it will probably not be
longer than restoring the whole thing from archives...

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