Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Mar 2000 02:15:19 +0000 (GMT) | From | Nicholas Vinen <> | Subject | Re: Patch to make ext2 mounts go faster.... |
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> > > 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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