mkfs.ext3 on a 9TB volume

[lesmikesell at gmail.com (Les Mikesell)]

On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 16:02, Francois Caen wrote:

> My application is a huge backup-to-disk samba-accessed storage.
> Performance and fsck-caused downtime are not important to me.

Keep in mind when you say that, the downtime in question
might be several days for a full fsck to run, depending
more on the number of files than the size of the filesystem.
Even if you don't happen to need to restore anything then
that can be a long time to not be making current backups.

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