Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Path: utzoo!censor!geac!maccs!apcah2!root
From: root@apcah2.Eng.McMaster.CA (Apcah2 Super-User)
Subject: Re: slow boot-time fsck -y -D, invoked by mount(!)
Message-ID: <1990Nov1.102132.19777@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Reply-To: root@apcah2.eng.mcmaster.ca (Apcah2 Super-User)
Organization: Dept. of Chem. Eng.,  McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
References: <1990Oct28.073438.8627@utstat.uucp> <73531@sgi.sgi.com>

In article <73531@sgi.sgi.com> daveh@xtenk.asd.sgi.com (David A Higgen) writes:
>In article <1990Oct28.073438.8627@utstat.uucp>, geoff@utstat.uucp (Geoff Collyer) writes:
>> We have an SGI 4D220 with 64Mb of main memory running Irix 3.2 with a
>> built-in ESDI disk and 4 SMD disks (3 Fujitsu Eagles and 1 Swallow) on a
>> Xylogics 754 (yer basic adequate computer).  The SMD drives come from an old
[ ... some details deleted for brevity ... ]
>I'm currently in the midst of a major overhaul of fsck which will appear
>in the next release. I've been able to make a speed improvement of a factor
>2 to 2.5 in the program itself, and there will be logic added to do
>parallel fsck's during bootup.

How about a -p option, instead of -y?  Is there a good reason to have fsck
run with -y always?

E. John Benjamins                                      BITNET: JOHNB@MCMASTER
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