On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 00:16:27 +0200, Jamie Lokier
<lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> said:
> I find the 5 minutes for my 75% full 6.4GB filesystem tedious but ok.
> If fsck time were linear, the same system would take 33.5 minutes for 43GB.
> Does this mean fsck times don't scale linearly with disk size?
You need to compare like with like. fsck is enormously sensitive to
disk latency and to the usage pattern on the disk (a mail spool has very
different properties to most disks!)
--Stephen
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