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SubjectRe: Patch to make ext2 mounts go faster....
tytso@mit.edu wrote:

> The following patches makes ext2 mounts go faster by removing
> the pointless counting of all of the free blocks and inodes in the
> bitmaps to make sure the match up with the block group descriptors. The
> checks take a huge amount of time, and are completely duplicated by the
> checks done by fsck.

Hi,

I could be be missing something here, but
what if someone mounts a disk that was not cleanly unmounted,
but they did not do an fsck before, and just went ahead
and mounted it?

I think mount should check to make sure it is mounting a clean
fs. no?

Nasser

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