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Date:      Thu, 16 Apr 2020 18:25:30 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net>
To:        Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
Cc:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fsck parallel check
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.2004161824360.3899@puchar.net>
In-Reply-To: <e5742016-81bb-2ba3-74a4-c633d3627b23@grosbein.net>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.2004161748390.20589@puchar.net> <e5742016-81bb-2ba3-74a4-c633d3627b23@grosbein.net>

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> Quoting the manual:
>
>     In other words: In preen mode all pass 1 partitions are checked
>     sequentially.  Next all pass 2 partitions are checked in parallel, one
>     process per disk drive.  Next all pass 3 partitions are checked in
>     parallel, one process per disk drive.  etc.

Yes i've read this manual.


"Next all pass 2 partitions are checked in parallel, one
process per disk drive."


so having 5 partitions on one SSD - it will be checked sequentially.

> Also note that "one process per disk" refers to old traditional partition numbering
> like da0s1a, da0s1d, da0s1e that fsck recognises as belonging to same "disk"
> but not to newer label-based mount like /dev/ufs/root, /dev/ufs/var or /dev/mirror/m0s1a etc.
> so it runs it all in parallel unless you deny it using different pass numbers.
>
i use /dev/gpt/gptlabel naming. so it will check in parallel.



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