Re: Does solaris require disks to be zeroed before using

From: Casper H.S. Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 09/23/04

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    David A.Lethe <davidATsantools.com> writes:

    >We did come up with scenario where a disk that had zeros for unused
    >data would be "easier" for fsck to recover if/when the filesystem was
    >shutdown improperly. If the patterns looked like orphaned inodes
    >then,well, that would be bad.

    That can't happen; inodes exist in a particular part of the disk and
    all inodes are initialized when doing "newfs".

    Of course, if you subsequently want to "unrm" a file, it helps a lot
    if the unused blocks are all zero.

    Casper 

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