OS4.1 HDD Activity????

[mchaggis]

My OS4.1 rig, after installing the update the hard drive light just never goes off? It's constantly flickering?

What's going on?

[mchaggis]

It's SAM440 and nothing except defaults in user and startup-sequence.

[mchaggis]

Perhaps one of your partitions is validating? Have you tried the "info" command in the shell? That'll tell you. If it is, then leave it until it finishes before shutting down again.

Finally, another vote for SFS here too. Not tried JXFS yet, I might convert one a spare partition on mine to that to see what it is like.

One of the partitions is indeed validating! I'll let it run over night and see how it goes.

[mchaggis]

It's been validating all weekend, somethings the matter...

[mchaggis]

Copied out the content and changed the file system to SFS/00. This seems to have sorted the 'validating' issue, and has provided a huge increase in I/O performance.

Is FFS known to be slow, especially compared to SFS/00?

And what's the difference between SFS/00 and SFS/02?