[geeks] Eeeek

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, alex j avriette wrote:

> > We have a Linux box with 320GB on it. It was taking a while to figure
> > out
> > how to get ReiserFS going (this was a while ago) and people started
> > asking
> > why I didn't have it running yet. When I explained that I could have it
> > running NOW, but if the machine crashed it would take about a day to
> > reboot,
> > they left me alone.
>
> i have two linux machines at work with 4x 100gb drives, and it takes
> about half an hour to bring them up (provided all disks need fsck). they
> are running ext2. theyre, um, 5400rpm i believe.

I am not talking that it takes half an hour to bring the machine
completely up.  It takes half an hour to POST.  Imagine how long it takes
to fsck a 2TB filesystem (that's about how big Linux filesystems get on
the mainframe.  On OS/390, they get much bigger.)

Peace...  Sridhar