>* With 18 drives/partitions per server and several hundred volumes per
> partition it takes an awfully long time for the fileserver to get started.
> Why can't it attach volumes from multiple partitions in parallel (like
> the salvager works in parallel)?
>
Actually, it would be nice if it "attached" the volume when it was first
referenced. This would allow startup time to be a matter of seconds instead of
a function of the number of volumes out there.
>---------------- sample output from vfsck ------------------------------
>** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
>UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=28744
>CLEAR? [yn] y
>
>** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
>UNALLOCATED I=28744 OWNER=root MODE=0
>SIZE=0 MTIME=Dec 31 18:00 1969
>NAME=/var/tmp/screens/S-backup/3811.console.fs-9
>
>REMOVE? [yn]
>
Doesn't your fsck have an option for this? Ours does, here is the relavent
section from the man page:
-y Assume a yes response to all questions asked by fsck;
this should be used with great caution as this is a
free license to continue after essentially unlimited
trouble has been encountered.
BTW, we run fsck manually (and in parallel) at boot time.
Mark Giuffrida
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