Re: Does solaris require disks to be zeroed before using
From: Scott Howard (scott_at_hunterlink.net.au)
Date: 09/24/04
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Date: 23 Sep 2004 22:31:46 GMT
David A.Lethe <davidATsantools.com> wrote:
> This is causing some issues at our company, and we can't get any
> definitive answers. Is there any requirement, or even best-practices
> policies that SCSI and/or fibre channel disk drives need to have all
> zeros written to them before partitioning and building a file system
> on them?
In a word, no.
Solaris will never attempt to read a block of data which it hasn't
previously written something to.
Scott
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