Re: Question about inode numbers..

2000-09-12 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Adrian Likins wrote: > I suspect it's probabaly one of the processes running > in the backgroud thats causing it. I've observed similar > behaviour on a machine with 5 drives in it raided. Everytime it > would boot, it would get to the where it would s

Re: Question about inode numbers..

2000-09-12 Thread John Summerfield
> process stat'ing the right set of files, or maybe a possesion. A demon? ROTFLOL ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list

Re: Question about inode numbers..

2000-09-12 Thread Adrian Likins
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 08:47:08AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > If the /etc directory has a high inode number compared to other > dirs, and the files in them that get ran at boot time such as > /sbin/*, /bin/*.. is it possible that the drive head will have > to jump all over the disk during rc.

Re: Question about inode numbers..

2000-09-12 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, John Summerfield wrote: >> Am I way out in left field here? I'm not too familiar with the >> super gory details of on disk data structure in ext2... >> >> Would a defragmentation help? > >How often do you reboot? Not often. >How long does it take to reboot? Not long. >H

Re: Question about inode numbers..

2000-09-12 Thread John Summerfield
> > Am I way out in left field here? I'm not too familiar with the > super gory details of on disk data structure in ext2... > > Would a defragmentation help? How often do you reboot? How long does it take to reboot? How much time do you anticipate that you might save each time you reboot? H

Question about inode numbers..

2000-09-11 Thread Mike A. Harris
If the /etc directory has a high inode number compared to other dirs, and the files in them that get ran at boot time such as /sbin/*, /bin/*.. is it possible that the drive head will have to jump all over the disk during rc.d/init.d/* processing? I'm just curious because I had an "accident" tod