Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Mar 2000 13:54:01 +0000 (GMT) | From | Nicholas Vinen <> | Subject | Re: Patch to make ext2 mounts go faster.... |
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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.
> > -- > Vojtech Pavlik > SuSE Labs >
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