Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!isis!nyx!bscott
From: bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: fsck for a hard disk?
Summary: It could be worse
Message-ID: <1280@nyx.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 90 06:03:45 GMT
References: <3396@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM> <1990Jun6.042910.297@foetus.syd.sgi.oz.au>
Reply-To: bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott)
Organization: Public Access Unix - University of Denver
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In article <1990Jun6.042910.297@foetus.syd.sgi.oz.au> peterk@foetus.syd.sgi.oz.au (Peter Kerney.Silicon Graphics.Australia) writes:
>One thing I have noticed on my A590. If you visit the GURU while doing I/O,
>when you reboot, the hard disk goes beserk. It seems to be doing 800 time the
>amount of work when going through s:startup-sequence et. al.
> [...] 
>A590's have ffs on them. Anyone throw any further light on this.

(presuming someone else will answer in detail about the disk validator)

Be glad the A590 has FFS on it!  I am told that if it were OFS the validation
process would take much, much longer.  Basically your disk is being validated
in parallel with your startup thanks to Multitasking (all praise be to it) and
you are hearing disk gronking at HD warp speeds.  Mine usually finishes shortly
after my startup, and it's no problem.  

It scares me every time this happens... if the validator cannot finish, my
HD is history... at best I will have to back up and restore.  At BEST.  So
far, so good...

.                           <<<<Infinite K>>>>

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