Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: faster boots? | Date | Fri, 5 Apr 2002 04:21:30 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> I find that on heavily scsi systems: one machine spins each of 13 disks > up sequentially. This makes the initial boot take 3-5 minutes before > init even gets its foot in the door. If someone made a patch to spin > up scsi disks on the first access, I'd gladly give it a test. ;-)
Ditto. Especially if it spun them down again when idle for a while.
The scsi layer does several things serially it could parallelise. It isnt just disk spin up its also things like initialising all scsi controllers in parallel.
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