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From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: reiserfsprogs 3.6.5-pre2 release.
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:13:24 +0300
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To: Anders Widman <andewid@tnonline.net>
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Hello!

On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:49:22AM +0100, Anders Widman wrote:
> > tests shown that almost all the time was spent on reading bitmap blocks.
> > And the same reading is done at mount time actually.
>   The   time  it  takes  to fsck a volume is probably only annoying on
>   large arrays of disks running LVM or spanned disk setup. Would it be
>   possible to read bitmaps from all physical drives at the same time?

Certain non-trivial amount of work is need to be put into "parallel" fsck then.

I have idea of a "hack" that might work, though ;)
fsck -a may not close the device until it gets mounted (or some timeout passed).
Then mounting will get bitmaps out of the cache or at least I hope so.
Need to do some experiments.

Bye,
    Oleg