How do I disable FFS?

[Tim Wright]

In <1110 at bcs800.UUCP> tima at bcs800.UUCP (Tim Addington) writes:

>I recently upgraded my system to a 650 Meg SCSI drive.  My question is
>is there anyway to speed up the mounting and dismounting of the various
>filesystems.  It is taking about 10 minutes now to bring up and shut down
>the system.  Is this due to the Fast File System or the High Performance
>Disk Driver or what.  I would like to disable this while I am setting up the
>system.

Do you have everything on the root partition or do you have the drive
partitioned more "normally". If you have one large partition, you will
definitely see this. I know that in Dell UNIX (ISC derived), the slow
mounting "problem" was fixed in version 1.1.
Don't know if this helps !

Tim
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