On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 07:44:57 +0100 Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.pro> wrote: > I have a server with many LVM logical volumes on top of the same RAID1 > md device on two spindles. > > At boot, fsck appeared to be starting on many of the LVs simultaneously. > > There was a horrendous sound of disk head movement from the server. > > This also makes the whole fsck process slower and therefore the boot > process is slower.
systemd-fsck is supposed to avoid this. According to its manpage: > The file system check for root is performed before the other file > systems. Other file systems may be checked in parallel, except when > they are one the same rotating disk. Does your LVM setup provide the correct value for "rotational"? What does the following command say: sudo find /sys -name 'rotational' -exec head {} + - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org