T. Horsnell wrote: > I didnt get any response to my first query, so > I'm asking again. Apologies if you replied and > I missed it - please re-send. > > > 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? It is my understanding that fsck will only check 1 drive on a bus at a time. I see this with my IDE drives. You said that you only see about 1/2 a dozen start up. Are you sure this isn't *5* (one on each SCSI bus)? And then when a drive completes, another on the same bus is then scheduled? > 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. Isn't this list for Fedora Core questions? > My fstab has a '2' in the 6th position for all filesystems > except root, which has a '1' as instructed in 'man fstab' -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
