Re: fsck performance on large RAID arrays ?

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Mon, 8 Feb 1999 14:14:28 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alvin
Oga) said:

> I have a hardware raid controller running off a P2-200
> with 64Gb of disk...99% full... and it takes
> about 45 min to e2fsck it when it goes down dirty...
> and takes about 10 min to mount it if it's clean

The 10 minute mount times for a large clean filesystem are due to the
consistency checks ext2 performs while mounting: it does a check that
all of the bitmaps match the free block/inode counts in the group
descriptor tables.  

For a faster boot, you can disable this check by mounting "-o
check=none" without losing any other functionality.

--Stephen