On Feb 16 Theodore Tso wrote: >> No. They're all volumes on an ICP-Vortex RAID 5 array, which appears as >> /dev/sda, so fsck serialises it. I'm not sure to go in parallel is a good >> idea, but it is hackable and if you like I'll give it a try. > >Do a quick hack to your /etc/rc scripts so that the environment >variable FSCK_FORCE_ALL_PARALLEL is set before running fsck, and >you'll probably be much, much happier. I'm sure I will be. Thanks very much for that! [snip] >might get huge increases in performance by adding memory (memory is >cheap; adding memory is often the easiest, fastest way to speed up a Well yes, but I'm trying to avoid using HIGHMEM just for now, as that's another potential sticky point :-/ Thanks again, Matt
