Is there the equivalent of a Windows "fast format" for UFS?

Peter Steele psteele at maxiscale.com
Fri Dec 4 19:23:39 UTC 2009


I suspect I know the answer to this question but I'll ask it anyway. We're dealing with some very large disks (11TB raid array) and a newfs operation takes a significant time. Is there any way to get a volume formatted faster than the typical newfs does?



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