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?

[HammerD]

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

What's going on?

It blips for a bit here right after reboot and amidock loads...but then stops...dunno, check startup prefs and user-startup ? what hardware?

[mchaggis]

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

[Karlos]

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

What's going on?

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.

[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...

[Karlos]

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

Ok, then your best bet is to read all the files from the partition that has the problem onto a different one and then reformat the bad partition and restore the files.

If you are going to reformat it, it might be a good idea to change the filesystem too.

[amigagr]

yes, go to sfs for all partitions. i had my self a lot of nightmares with ffs in my 1200 until i found sfs:drink:

[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?

[cha05e90]

The answer is: Yes. Even Olaf "Olsen" Barthel suggests NOT to use FFS2 - switch to SFS/00 or SFS/02. Most people use SFS/00 for the boot partition and SFS/02 for everything else - if you feel "experimental" you might use JFXS for non-bootable partitions, I haven't tried this yet. The difference between SFS/00 and SFS/02 is the usual, the last one is newer and is able to handle bigger hard disks and partitions - it should be explained in the the docs located in the documentation drawer.