From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Oct 23 16:11:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64BAF37B479 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 16:11:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e9NNBhn83764; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:11:43 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id RAA11179; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:11:42 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200010232311.RAA11179@harmony.village.org> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Subject: Re: Ideas concerning fsck Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 22 Oct 2000 14:50:26 MDT." <200010222050.e9MKoQw52873@aslan.scsiguy.com> References: <200010222050.e9MKoQw52873@aslan.scsiguy.com> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:11:42 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200010222050.e9MKoQw52873@aslan.scsiguy.com> "Justin T. Gibbs" writes: : >If you think obviating the need for Pass# is a Bad Thing, how about : >making it optional (defaulting to 1) so you can still set it manually : >on your systems, and the rest of us won't have to? : : Having a default is fine, but removing this quite useful feature is not. : You can actually increase the speed with which you boot by carefully : tuning the passes on multi-filesystem per disk/multiple disk systems. Especially since you have multiple scsi buses and multiple drives on them. You can keep things well balanced with pass numbers. Please don't remove them. I set them all the time. Mostly so we don't try to fsck all the file systems on the same spindle at the same time. It is faster to do them serially, in my experience, than in parallel due to disk seek times. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message