Benno Senoner wrote:
> With today large disks 10+ GB avoiding the long fsck at boot time is a
> feature which
> is strongly needed. ( in this case NT has the advantage over Linux
> because it
> has some sort of journaling, therefore it boots relatively fast even on
> an unclean shutdown).
Something of a priority for MS to get this right
in NT though :-)
> I plan to make some multimedia workstations which plays big audio/video
> files,
> from a soft-RAID array.
> but actually the customer , in the worst case (in case of an fsck) must
> turn on the power of the machine 30-60min (for a 90% full 70GB array)
> before actual usage.
> In my case the machines can not remain powered up all the time, because
> the machines will be used for presentations at different locations.
I don't know about your application, but from
the tests I've done, you're looking at a 60 min+
fsck at boot. Are these multimedia files on
the RAID array some sort of static content? Would
it be possible in your case to mount the ext2
partition containing them read-only, thus avoiding
an fsck even if the plug is pulled?
To go r/o:
mount -o remount,ro /mnt/raid
To go back to r/w:
mount -o remount,rw /mnt/raid
Rich.
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