System Init bottlenecks
When I boot, I experience a number of filesystem related delays.
All of my HD partitions are Reiser, but I get:
VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev hda2.
VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev hda2.
Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda2.
found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
(perhaps the one about CD-ROM really isn't referring to hda2). Is there a
way to predefine that search order, so that it finds reiserfs right away? I
though I could change /etc/filesystems, but of course /etc/ isn't mounted
yet!
Later on, it mounts my windows partition, and everything halts while it runs
dosfsck for about half an eternity. Is there a better way to make that
asynchronous than to just not set it as "auto" and mount it in my own
script? I don't use that partition much, and wouldn't (usually) notice if
it got mounted 10 minutes later. What's the significance of the 'pass'
setting in /etc/fstab? Everything seems to mount at the same time.
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Derek Broughton
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