From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 13 17:52:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA13218 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 13 May 1996 17:52:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (h196-7-192-134.iafrica.com [196.7.192.134]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA13206 for ; Mon, 13 May 1996 17:52:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id CAA00745; Tue, 14 May 1996 02:46:53 +0200 From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199605140046.CAA00745@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: 3 terabytes on one server? (was Re: more than 32 scsi disks on a single machine ?) To: taob@io.org (Brian Tao) Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 02:46:52 +0200 (SAT) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Brian Tao" at May 13, 96 05:34:48 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brian Tao wrote: [...] > Whether I use '2' or '1' for the non-root disks, it takes 5:50 to > fsck the four drives. sd1 to sd3 are 4GB drives, so parallelizing an > fsck should have a noticeable difference. I'm invoking it as "fsck -y" > as well as "fsck -y -l 10". What am I missing? You need "fsck -p". Parallel fsck-ing is available only in preen mode. -- Robert Nordier