hi benno
I have a hardware raid controller running off a P2-200
with 64Gb of disk...99% full... and it takes
about 45 min to e2fsck it when it goes down dirty...
and takes about 10 min to mount it if it's clean
- think software raids would be worst ?
have fun
alvin
> does anyone of you know how long it takes,
> to e2fsck (after an unclean shutdown) for example a soft-raid5 array of
> a total size of about 40-50 GB
> ( example : 6 disk with 9GB (UW SCSI) )
> assume the machine is a PII300 - PII400
>
> assume that the raid-array is almost filled with data (so that e2fsck
> takes longer)
>
>
> can times go up to 1h ?
>
> Is it very unsafe to remove fsck at boot ?
> what about checking /proc/mdstat at boot time and then determining if
> e2fsck should be run or not ?
> In theory if the array was shut down cleanly , the filesystem should be
> in a consistent status.
> please correct me in I am wrong .
>
> If you have some time figures , please post theese.
>
> Giulio , do you have some ?
> :-)
>
> many thanks,
> Benno.
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