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The 2006 Linux File Systems Workshop

The 2006 Linux File Systems Workshop

Posted Jul 6, 2006 9:32 UTC (Thu) by llloic (subscriber, #5331)
Parent article: The 2006 Linux File Systems Workshop

"Fsck on multi-terabyte file systems today can easily take 2 days, and in the future it will take even longer!"

This is a bit imprecise, fsck of a given size file systems will be faster in the future that it is today, because the disks will have better bandwidth and smaller seek time.

But I agree that fsck will be generally longer because the average file system size will be greater and the bandwidth and seek time won't scale accordingly.


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The 2006 Linux File Systems Workshop

Posted Jul 6, 2006 10:21 UTC (Thu) by arjan (subscriber, #36785) [Link]

actually... seek times are not really shrinking; they haven't for the last 5 years and if you look at the data in the article and the seagate pdf.. that'll not change really until 2013 at the minimum.

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