Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 12:48:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ideas concerning fsck Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10010241247090.44920-100000@login-1.eunet.no> In-Reply-To: <20001023192759.A1077@freebie.demon.nl>
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> > The current suggested use of the pass # is to set the root filesystem > > to pass 1, and everything else that you want checked with pass 2. Fsck > > has a heuristic to decide which filesystems are on the same drive and > > will run them serially (see fsck/preen.c); filesystems on different > > spindles will be run in parallel. Running the root separately and by > I could imagine that for multiple filesystems sharing one (hardware) RAID > volume one might want to be able to override this heuristic. The inherent > parallelism allowed by RAID would allow checking of multiple filesystems > on the (apparantly) same spindle without speed degradation/trashing. Adding a pass 3 and beyond, or 3[a-z], would probably solve that. Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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