Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Mar 2000 13:57:06 +0000 (GMT) | From | Nicholas Vinen <> | Subject | Re: Patch to make ext2 mounts go faster.... |
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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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