Subject: Re: Minimum swap size
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>
From: Sean Davis <dive@endersgame.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/19/2003 17:58:02
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 11:36:18PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >
> > Uhh, in my case, for example, with one 120GB drive and one 20GB drive, even
> > partitioned into a bunch of bits (the biggest being 60GB), checking that
> > 60GB partition does take a hell of a long time. I wouldn't want it all in
> 
> if system crashes, all partition has to be checked anyway...

yes, but checking multiple smaller partitions seems to take less time than
checking one huge partition.

> 
> 
> anyway strange as my 40GB disk checks in max 5 minutes on pentium 133
> 
> > one partition. Not until NetBSD has some sort of journaling filesystem or
> > LFS becomes stable enough to use everyday.
> 

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