operation not permitted on entropy file

[Polytropon]

On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 17:50:19 +0100, RW wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 17:16:53 +0200
> Polytropon wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:52:00 -0500, Adam Vande More wrote:
> > > Try fsck'ing a nearly full TB FS on a production box that has had a
> > > dirty unmount and you will begin to appreciate the adventure a bit
> > > more.
> > 
> > I prefer appreciating my precious data. :-)
> > 
> > No, honestly: On production systems, this might be an issue
> > (which should be resolved by appropriate countermeasures, as
> > we're probably talking about mission-critical systems), but
> > for home systems, it surely isn't that bad. I'm saying this
> > from my very individual experience of having fsck work on
> > a nearly full 1 TB disk several times a week, in worst cases,
> > few times a day. And I don't even care that it takes more
> > than 10 minutes, as it makes sure my data is safe.
> 
> It depends on your hardware, it used to take several hours on my last
> PC. Admittedly it was testing sequentially with a full fsck (run from a
> script that mounts my geli partitions)  and it was cpu limited in
> geli.

With parallel processing enabled in the CPU (multicore and HT),
things can go faster. Having SATA also helps. :-)




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