[SunHELP] Slow newfs 36GB HD - Solaris 7

[Kevin Stevens]

Improving the speed of formatting UFS partitions was one of the
enhancements Sun specifically mentioned for Solaris 8, they made a big
deal about exactly the scenario you describe.  Guess they were right!  ;)

KeS

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Sean Holden wrote:

> I have been experiencing something odd on our new E450's. They have
> 4x480Mhz processors and 36GB internal hard drives. I have installed
> Solaris 7 11/99 release. When I format one of the drives as a single
> partition it takes over 7 minutes to newfs it. The same systems running
> Solaris 8 only take about 30 seconds and our older E450's with the
> slower processors also only take about 30-50 seconds. None of the
> systems I have tested on have had any users or user processes running
> when I test. I can't find any patches on sunsolve that seem to apply to
> this issue and I have even opened a support call with sun but so far
> noone there has been able to help (actually noone seemed interested in
> helping, but thats another story.) Have any of you experienced
> something like this? Anyone running the 480Mhz 450 with Solaris 7? Any
> ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
> Sean
>
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