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Date:      Thu, 6 Jul 2000 12:34:56 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Walter Campbell <wcampbel@botbay.net>
To:        Linh Pham <lplist@q.closedsrc.org>
Cc:        David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, Thomas Gellekum <tg@melaten.rwth-aachen.de>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: /etc/rc.shutdown calls local scripts now
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007061232490.87628-100000@botbay.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007060920330.74904-100000@q.closedsrc.org>

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> > HP/UX does something like this.  I find it rather useful, but that may be
> > because I have boxes that take almost an hour to boot....
> 
> An hour to boot? Boy... the only time I ever saw a machine take an hour to
> boot (which does not include the POST/memory check/BIOS screen) was a
> 486SX/33 with 24MB of RAM running Windows NT 3.51 SP3. Of course it was
> running off of a 5 1/4" 400MB SCSI hard drive too!

Try a Solaris 2.6 machine fsck'ing an array of 14 9.1 giggers

Longest I've ever seen a BSD box boot was about 10-15 minutes though,
including fsck'ing 4 drives



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