Bug#776034: fsck runs in parallel on same physical disk

[Michael Biebl]

control: severity -1 important

Am 23.01.2015 um 07:44 schrieb Daniel Pocock:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 215-8
> Severity: serious
> 
> 
> I have a server with many LVM logical volumes on top of the same RAID1
> md device on two spindles.
> 
> At boot, fsck appeared to be starting on many of the LVs simultaneously.
> 
> There was a horrendous sound of disk head movement from the server.
> 
> This also makes the whole fsck process slower and therefore the boot
> process is slower.

As Josh said, systemd-fsck should avoid parallel fsck processes for the
same physical disk. That said, having concurrent disk access is not
something special which would warrant an RC bug.

Therefore downgrading.


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