Re: e2fsck and devfs bug?

[Ilya Martynov <m_ilya@agava.com>]

>>> I identified a problem with e2fsck: It wanted to check all five partitions
>>> at the same time!
P> It does check all partitions at a time to reduce the time it takes to boot.

IM> Is it a bug? AFAIK on e2fsck without devfs tries to check at one time
    ^^^^^^^^^^^

Of course I mean "Is not it a bug?".

IM> several partitions *only* if they reside on different phisical devices
IM> which is reasonable. But checking at one time several partitions on
IM> one physical device is senseless. It only makes it more slow because
IM> IMHO it is faster to sequantly read data from several partitions on one
IM> device then do it at same time.


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