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SubjectRe: Patch to make ext2 mounts go faster....

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 02:15:19AM +0000, Nicholas Vinen wrote:
>
> > Am *I* missing something and you can do this by mounting with the
> > "nocheck" option?? I have a 50GB RAID and I mount it using nocheck, it
> > takes a fraction of a second, without this option it takes about 20
> > seconds to mount.
> > Surely a mount option is better than patching the kernel?
>
> The point is that noone needs the 'check' case, because the checks
> don't check anything vital, and only take a lot of time. So many
> clueless people wait much longer than they'd need to.
>
> The check isn't necessary, because the 'clean' flag is still there and
> if your system crashes, e2fsck will do the checking job. No need to
> check the counts on every mount.

Hmm, well I have had the check find some problems in the past. However
I mess with my system a lot and the corruption was probably my fault. Most
people wouldn't have this problem. Nobody likes a mounted corrupt
filesystem however.

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> --
> Vojtech Pavlik
> SuSE Labs
>


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