Re: e2fsck and devfs bug?
P> 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.
P> Yes you are right. It shouldn't be that way. It makes it slower. It only happens when you use devfs?
Probably. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=94159
for more info.
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