From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Oct 24 3:48:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay.eunet.no (mail-relay.eunet.no [193.71.71.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A1A237B479 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 03:48:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from login-1.eunet.no (login-1.eunet.no [193.75.110.2]) by mail-relay.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.9.3/GN) with ESMTP id MAA02817; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 12:48:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from localhost (mbendiks@localhost) by login-1.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA44987; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 12:48:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) X-Authentication-Warning: login-1.eunet.no: mbendiks owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 12:48:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen To: Wilko Bulte Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ideas concerning fsck In-Reply-To: <20001023192759.A1077@freebie.demon.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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