Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:55:42 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: IdiotSwitch Editor <idiotswitch@beer.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ideas? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990128185403.11856O-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <001e01be4a68$1f4ac2c0$1900000a@chopper.my.intranet>
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On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, IdiotSwitch Editor wrote: > I can't code, so I wouldn't know how to implement these. Or even if it's > possible. > > Parallel device loading. I know that freebsd's boot sequence can continue > loading new devices while waiting for other devices to respond with irq's > and whatnot. However, could this be taken a step further and have multiple > devices actually searched in parallel? Things such as network cards could > be scanned for at the same time as harddisks. Would that save time? I know > harddisks (IDE ones anyway) take a little while to respond. Already being worked on.. > > The other thing I notice is that fsck, when it runs only does one disk at a > given time. I can see only doing one partition of a disk at a time (for > obvious reasons), but would it not be possible to run it on say wd0 and wd2 > at the same time? Yeah.. I know, shut down properly and I won't have that > problem :) Thing is, various things have crashed my system twice, and > that's the most annoying part. fsck already does this in some cases.. (read the man page for full details I guess) > > Anyhow. Like I said. I can't do it myself, but leave it up to you to > consider the importance and possibly implementation strategy. good try. :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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