I have a system with about 50 SCSI drives spread across 5 buses, mostly with 1 ext3 filesystem per drive. After a crash I decided to accept the boot-time offer to fsck them. About half a dozen proceeded to be checked simultaneously, but thereafter the rest went off one by one. Is this a bug? Should fsck be able to handle this many in parallel? Or should it do things in smaller parallel chunks? I have to confess that I'm running RHEL4 and my e2fsck version is still 1.35, 28-Feb-2004. Maybe someone knows that this has been fixed in a later version. My fstab has a '2' in the 6th position for all filesystems except root, which has a '1' as instructed in 'man fstab' Cheers, Terry.
