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

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 tytso@mit.edu wrote:

> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 02:15:19 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Nicholas Vinen <hb@sonique.com>
>
> 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?
>
> Basically, there's no reason to have the kernel doing the check, so by
> removing it we can make the kernel smaller and make mounts go faster for
> people who doesn't know the trick. It's not like the check did that
> much useful.....

OK, sounds reasonable. It is kinda annoying :)


Nicholas


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