Could it be doing a verify of what was just written?
Sent from my iPhone On Nov 7, 2012, at 19:08, Rich Smrcina <[email protected]> wrote: > Did you get a coffee? > > On 11/07/2012 05:58 PM, Marcy Cortes wrote: >> The list is a little quiet so I thought I would ask this. >> >> It takes about 42 minutes here to dasdfmt a volume with 65519 cylinders on >> it. >> It takes about 18 minutes to dd an already formatted volume over to a new >> one. >> It also takes about 19 minutes to fill it up with zeros by cat /dev/zero to >> it. >> >> Why does dasdfmt take so long? >> >> >> Marcy >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or >> visit >> http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For more information on Linux on System z, visit >> http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > > -- > > Richard Smrcina > Sr. Systems Engineer > > Velocity Software Inc. > Main: (650) 964-8867 > Main: (877) 964-8867 > [email protected] <mailto://[email protected]> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Signature > <http://www.velocitysoftware.com/> > *Follow us:* > facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Velocity-Software/356098274460840> > LinkedIn > <http://www.linkedin.com/company/1798379?trk=tyah> twitter > <https://twitter.com/VelocitySoftw> Xing > <https://www.xing.com/companies/velocitysoftwaregmbh><https://www.xing.com/companies/velocitysoftwaregmbh> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
