At 2:02 Uhr +0100 10.01.1997, Masami Nakata wrote:

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>The only difference I can think of between booting in multi-user and
>single-user modes is that fsck may check filesystems "parallelly" when
>booting in multi-user mode, whereas it does not when invoked by hand.
>
>I have a Fujitsu M2964ES and a Quantum Fireball 1080 (both 1080M
>drives) at SCSI ID 0 and 1 respectively, and I have set up /etc/fstab
>in such a way that some partitions are fsck'ed simultaneously.
>
>Does this indicate some kind of race condition in (oh I forgot to
>mention which SCSI driver I'm using) the SBC driver?

I _think_ I've seen this before. If you configure fstab for concurrent
checks, make sure that the / fs is checked first and exclusively; I dimly
recall having read something in that direction. I.e., the / fs is tagged
with "1" in some fstab field, other fs'es then with "2", "3" etc.



	hauke

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