From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 15 12:47:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA16727 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 15 May 1996 12:47:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebsd.ki.net (root@freebsd.ki.net [205.150.102.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA16717 for ; Wed, 15 May 1996 12:47:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by freebsd.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA03137; Wed, 15 May 1996 15:43:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: freebsd.ki.net: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 15:43:17 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Joerg Wunsch cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3 terabytes on one server? (was Re: more than 32 scsi disks on a single machine ?) In-Reply-To: <199605142219.AAA01722@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 15 May 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > As Sean Kelly wrote: > > > Yep. The sixth field is the fsck pass number. fsck runs in order of > > pass number, entries with the same number are run in parallel. > > Only two distinct pass numbers are supported, however. The first is > for the root f/s, the other one for the rest. > > > /dev/sd0a / ufs rw 1 1 > > /dev/sd0s1e /usr ufs rw 1 1 > > /dev/sd0s1b none swap sw 0 0 > > /dev/sd1s1e /var ufs rw 1 1 > > /dev/sd1s1f /var/spool ufs rw 1 1 > Now, my assumption when I originally read the man page was that a value of 1 did sequential fsck's, and a value of to invoked parrellelism...is this a correct assumption? or, in Joe's case above, would all of those file systems in the '1' range be fsck's in parrellel, and then all his news drives next? Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org