Thanks to all those who responded to my query regarding parallel fsck's
(list below )
The answer seems to be :
1) You can already do this using the pass field in the fstab file
under SunOS.
2) SunOS4.1.2 has the ability to skip unnecessary fscks, this
is part of DiskSuite which is bundled with SunOS4.1.2
3) There is a PD utility called "preen" available on gatekeeper.dec.com
(and others) which runs fscks on multiple disks in parallel.
4) parallel fsck's on the same disk are slower, parallel fsck's on
different disks are faster.
The first one I didn't know about, the second I know already and the 3rd & 4th
ones were the answer I really wanted.
Now an apology - I have been rather misleading in my original posting. I
was really interested in something like preen for a SYSV4 (Not Solaris 2.0)
system we have here with >24GB of disks. I posted to sun-managers in
the hope of discovering something general enough to be applicable, and got
it in the form of preen. While SYSV4 has a similar feature to 2), it does not
have 1), thus something like preen is needed, which I am now porting - will
post patches to comp.sources when I'm done.
Thanks again to the following respondees :
David Fong <dsf@NSD.3Com.COM>
mann@emma.la.asu.edu (Mark Mann)
"John D. Barlow" <John.D.Barlow@arp.anu.edu.au>
Stefan Mochnacki <stefan@centaur.astro.utoronto.ca>
sid@ingres.com
chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
greg@ncr-sd.UUCP (Greg Noel)
mogul@Carmel.ARPA (Jeff Mogul, probably?)
Eddie Brown <eddieb@ERC.MsState.Edu>
Christopher Davis <ckd@eff.org>
popelka@odysseus.uchicago.edu (Glenn Popelka)
aadne@tss.no (Aadne Hestenes Spt)
engp1186@nuscc.nus.sg (Won-Soon Lau)
simon@swindon.gpsemi.com (Simon Booth x8125 System Mangler ! - Unix)
ohnielse@ltf.dth.dk (Ole Holm Nielsen)
Eckhard.Rueggeberg@ts.go.dlr.de
Gerhard.Holzer@rcvie.co.at (Gerhard Holzer)
csmoko%earth@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Chuck Smoko - E41)
chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
greg@ncr-sd.UUCP (Greg Noel)
mogul@Carmel.ARPA (Jeff Mogul, probably?)
Steve Lodin <swlodin@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com>
alastair@eucad.co.uk (Alastair Young)
phil@dgbt.doc.ca (Phil Blanchfield)
VINCE@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU
matt@wbst845e.xerox.com (Matt Goheen)
rr6204 <rr6204@moses.boeing.com>
bill@aloft.att.com
aloft!bill (B. Shorter)
brossard@sasun1.epfl.ch (Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII)
Doug Acker <dla@se05.wg2.waii.com>
yih@atom.cs.utah.edu (Benny Yih)
"Everett Schell" <schell@molbio.cbs.umn.edu>
chip@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Charles H. Buchholtz)
Chip Christian <chip@allegra.att.com>
chris@lslsun.epfl.ch (Christian Iseli)
Daniel Quinlan <danq@lemond.Colorado.EDU>
todd@flex.anu.edu.au (Todd Pfaff)
davee@lightning.mitre.org (David N. Edwards)
cadence!dot@uunet.uu.net (Dot Mastakouras)
Sheryl Coppenger <sheryl@seas.gwu.edu>
Fereydoun Tavangary 503-627-6717 DS 50-662 <ft@sparky.labs.tek.com>
wallen@cogsci.UCSD.EDU (Mark R. Wallen)
Jim Guyton <guyton%condor@rand.org>
button@alc.com
Matt Crawford <matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu>
mdl@cypress.com (J. Matt Landrum)
david@msri.org (David Mostardi)
mks!andy@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Andy Toy)
poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
kwthomas@nsslsun.nssl.uoknor.edu (Kevin W. Thomas)
lamour@maestro.mitre.org (Michael Lamoureux)
Probert <probert%cs@hub.ucsb.edu>
deltam!tigger!jt@uunet.uu.net (jim wills)
Perry_Hutchison.Portland@xerox.com
guy@auspex.com (Guy Harris)
woodstck@hal.com (Nathan Hess)
pjy@merlin.anu.edu.au (Peter Young)
Mark Prior <mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au>
David Fetrow <fetrow@biostat.washington.edu>
Mathew Lim, Unix Systems Programmer, ANU Supercomputer Facility,
Australian National University, GPO Box 4, Canberra City, ACT, Australia 2601.
Telephone : +61 06 249 2750 | ACSnet : M.Lim@anu.oz
Fax : +61 06 247 3425 | Internet : M.Lim@anu.edu.au
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