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#1 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 06:21 AM

I've recently added a scsi disc to a linux system, in order to obtain
improved duty cycle performance (the things I was doing broke IDE
discs). The disc is added to /etc/fstab using ext3 defaults dump=0 and
pass=2 (ie the same as the other read/write filesystems). However,
when the system boots and tries to fsck, the scsi disc isn't yet
mounted, as far as I can see because the module aic79xx hasn't yet
been loaded.

The system is Debian with a linux 2.6.5 smp kernel. How can I persuade
it to load the aic79xx and the things it depends on in time for the
fsck? Or is there something else I should be doing?

#2 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 06:21 AM

In comp.os.linux.setup Jon Thackray <jgt@pobox.com>:
> I've recently added a scsi disc to a linux system, in order to obtain
> improved duty cycle performance (the things I was doing broke IDE
> discs). The disc is added to /etc/fstab using ext3 defaults dump=0 and
> pass=2 (ie the same as the other read/write filesystems). However,

This is beyond me why you want to force an fsck on reboot on an
ext3 fs? It doesn't need any, you will gain nothing, ext3 runs
for hundred of days without the slightest drop in performance
under heavy usage. This isn't M$.

> The system is Debian with a linux 2.6.5 smp kernel. How can I persuade
> it to load the aic79xx and the things it depends on in time for the
> fsck? Or is there something else I should be doing?

man mkinitrd

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