2GB memory limit running fsck on a +6TB device

[Santi Saez]

Theodore Tso escribió:
> It's always a good idea when running e2fsck (aka fsck.ext3) directly
> and/or on a terminal/console to include as command-line options "-C
> 0".  This will display a progress bar, so you can gauge how it is
> doing.  (0 through 70% is pass 1, which requires scanning the inode
> table and following all of the indirect blocks.)
>   

Thanks for the tip! :-)

'/var/cache/e2fsck' is in the _same_ disk, perhaps mounting via iSCSI, 
NFS, etc.. this directory will improve, we will work with this in other 
test.

I have enabled progress bar sending SIGUSR1 signal to the process, and 
it's still on 2% ;-(

"scratch_files" directory size is now 251M, it has grown 81MB in the 
last 7 hours:

# ls -lh /var/cache/e2fsck/
total 251M
-rw------- 1 root root 112M 2008-06-11 00:09 
7701b70e-f776-417b-bf31-3693dba56f86-dirinfo-VkmFXP
-rw------- 1 root root 139M 2008-06-11 00:09 
7701b70e-f776-417b-bf31-3693dba56f86-icount-YO08bu

strace's output is the same, and also memory usage is the same.

I will let the process more time.. but I think it will take too much 
time to complete, at least to finish the pass 1, perhaps more than 50 
hours? According that now is only on 2% of the process + take 12 hours 
to complete, and pass 1 is from 0% through 70%.. is there any other 
solution to solve this?

ext4 will solve this problem? I have not tested ext4 already, but I have 
read that it will improve fast filesytem checking...

Regards,

--
Santi Saez