[CentOS] e2fsck with millions of files

Tue Aug 31 14:49:52 UTC 2010
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Brent L. Bates wrote:
>      Stack size was only a problem for the 32 bit OS and not 64 bit.  If
> one is dealing with a terabyte or more of data, I don't see them using a 32
> bit OS.  I really don't see any really good reasons for using anything
but 64
> bit any more, if the hardware supports it.

I dunno what the problem is - I haven't looked up the bug - but I'm doing
this on 64-bit servers, and the bug's there, as someone noted, if you have
lots of hard links (think rsync backups).

         mark