fsck parallel check

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <571d8b81-f4f9-d371-6cf2-2e7aeb82a09b at grosbein.net>, Eugene Grosbein writes:

>Not necessary. Fsck tries to parse device name this way: /path/to/nameNUMBERrest
>so it skips all chars upto last /, then extracts "name" part not containing any digits,
>then extracts NUMBER part containing only digits, upto maximum lenght.
>Then is uses nameNUMBER for "disk name".

Yeah, that part sucks...

I think it would make sense to make the heuristic that if there are any
entries with pass > 2, then ignore the "disk name" and simply run all
entries for each pass number in parallel, trusting root to have it
figured out.

If the highest passnumber is 2, retain the "disk name" heuristic.


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