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What's the Damage? Measuring fsck Under XFS and Ext4 On Big Storage

Posted by timothy on from the disks-groaning-with-shame dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Enterprise Storage Forum's long-awaited Linux file system Fsck testing is finally complete. Find out just how bad the Linux file system scaling problem really is."

10 of 196 comments (clear)

  1. Breaking News! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    This just in:

    Full filesystem scans take longer as the size of the filesystem increases.

    News at 11.

  2. Damage? by eggstasy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Honey badger don't give a fsck.

  3. Re:fsck speed, want safety by darkpixel2k · · Score: 5, Funny

    when I need to fsck, I just call my girlfriend

    Why? Do you not know how to use the command line?

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  4. Re:linux is fail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    sudo kill yourself

    ;-)

  5. Re:fsck speed, want safety by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    when I need to fsck, I just call my girlfriend

    Me too.

  6. Re:linux is fail by ifrag · · Score: 3, Funny

    I like how you completely ignored Solaris yet still presented the comment as if it was a valid counterargument.

    I also like how GP completely ignored Solaris. I just like the fact it is being ignored.

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  7. Re:linux is fail by lvxferre · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why would you replace a zero-ed string with another? At least use /dev/random, bro.

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  8. Re:fsck speed, want safety by lvxferre · · Score: 5, Funny

    Protip: if 'make love' returns no target, you need to do the job by hand.

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  9. Re:linux is fail by Saxophonist · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, you're thinking of ReiserFS.

  10. Re:fsck xfs does something? by Vanders · · Score: 1, Funny

    Well thank goodness you don't have a big ego on top of everything else... sheesh.

    Hey, I wasn't the one being wrong and calling people dumb.

    If you want to actually help

    Where did you get the impression I wanted to help? You were just wrong. Get over it.

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