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

>
> > The following patches makes ext2 mounts go faster by removing
> > the pointless counting of all of the free blocks and inodes in the
> > bitmaps to make sure the match up with the block group descriptors. The
> > checks take a huge amount of time, and are completely duplicated by the
> > checks done by fsck.
>
> Hi,
>
> I could be be missing something here, but
> what if someone mounts a disk that was not cleanly unmounted,
> but they did not do an fsck before, and just went ahead
> and mounted it?
>
> I think mount should check to make sure it is mounting a clean
> fs. no?

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?


Nicholas Vinen


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