what is fsck's "slowdown"?

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> On 2004-09-24 16:07, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy at hub.org> wrote:
>> Just curious as to whether or not this is going to get applied to the
>> source tree ... ?  Just checked my -current, and it isn't there yet, just
>> wanted to see if maybe its been forgotten? :(
>> [ snip patch for fsck by Don Lewis ]
>
> I'm not an src-committer and I haven't had a chance to test this.
>
> Unrelated problems of burncd left me with a system that I can't backup to
> CD-ROMs anymore.  Until that's resolved I'm reluctant to try fsck changes :-/

ya, for me, I've got good systems to test them on, that will really tax 
things, but unfortunately they are a) production and b) 4.x ... like to 
know that its been tested some before I risk :)

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