Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:14:55 +0100 (BST) | Subject | Re: Mounting rw is slower than ro? |
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Hi,
On Mon, 07 Jun 1999 00:22:58 +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout <s3100411@student.anu.edu.au> said:
> I've been wondering about this for a while now. > Why is it that mounting a 5Gig partition read-only > is instanteous, but mounting read-write take > forever (well, a while anyway)
Mounting read-write does a few extra consistency checks on the block and inode bitmaps. You can disable them with "mount -o check=none".
--Stephen
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