Bug#575343: Precautionary checks slow boot excessively

2010-05-27 Thread Elliott Mitchell
From: ty...@mit.edu On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 03:11:23PM -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote: If you hate precautionary checks so much, then turn them off. The tools for doing this are within your hands. Or do them using a LVM snapshot. I don't hate precautionary checks. The problem is my

Bug#575343: Precautionary checks slow boot excessively

2010-05-27 Thread tytso
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 05:58:12PM -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote: Oy vey! I'm inclined to suggest that if this really does happen, that sounds like a bug... I could understand funky occurances if after reloading, the kernel can no longer find the FS data structures (device was erased), but

Bug#575343: Precautionary checks slow boot excessively

2010-05-24 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Any update? Should /I/ create a second bug report and attach it to util-linux? (or are you going to do the honors?) Thought I saw the current BTS can have a report shared amoung multiple packages... The algorithm that comes to mind for this problem: Pass 0: (/etc/init.d/checkroot.sh)

Bug#575343: Precautionary checks slow boot excessively

2010-05-24 Thread tytso
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 03:11:23PM -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote: Any update? I continue to think this is hopelessly complex and not worth the effort. If you hate precautionary checks so much, then turn them off. The tools for doing this are within your hands. Or do them using a LVM snapshot.

Bug#575343: Precautionary checks slow boot excessively

2010-03-25 Thread Elliott Mitchell
From: ty...@mit.edu If you are mounting the file system read-only, feel free to change the fsck pass number in /etc/fstab to be 0. That will cause e2fsck to be skipped completely. Wrong behavior. The desire here is not to disable checks due to being on read-only media, but the filesystem is

Bug#575343: Precautionary checks slow boot excessively

2010-03-25 Thread tytso
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:55:50AM -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote: Which is why I wasn't writing about the mount count. I was writing about the check interval/check time. With systems that reboot less than once a month, the mount count will never be reached. Instead it will be the check

Bug#575343: Precautionary checks slow boot excessively

2010-03-25 Thread Elliott Mitchell
From: ty...@mit.edu On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:55:50AM -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote: Which is why I wasn't writing about the mount count. I was writing about the check interval/check time. With systems that reboot less than once a month, the mount count will never be reached. Instead it

Bug#575343: Precautionary checks slow boot excessively

2010-03-24 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.3-1 Subject tells the story. Why are mere /precautionary/ filesystem checks allowed to slow a system booting so much? ie the ones triggered by either the mount count or check time exceeding their limits. I would suggest limiting it to doing a precautionary check

Bug#575343: Precautionary checks slow boot excessively

2010-03-24 Thread tytso
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 05:29:58PM -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.3-1 Subject tells the story. Why are mere /precautionary/ filesystem checks allowed to slow a system booting so much? ie the ones triggered by either the mount count or check time exceeding