Re: e2fsck and devfs bug?
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:33:58PM +0400, Ilya Martynov wrote:
>
> >> 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.
>
> Is it a bug? AFAIK on e2fsck without devfs tries to check at one time
> several partitions *only* if they reside on different phisical devices
> which is reasonable. But checking at one time several partitions on
> one physical device is senseless. It only makes it more slow because
> IMHO it is faster to sequantly read data from several partitions on one
> device then do it at same time.
Yes you are right. It shouldn't be that way. It makes it slower. It only happens when you use devfs?
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