Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-23,: Re: Mounting rw is slower than ro?

# Re: Mounting rw is slower than ro?

Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Sun, 6 Jun 1999 16:32:21 +0200

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Hi!

> I've been wondering about this for a while now.
>
> Why is it that mounting a 5Gig partition read-only
> is instanteous, but mounting read-write take
> forever (well, a while anyway)

mount ... -onocheck

should be your ticket to paradise. (My 486 can mount 100Giga simulated
disk in less than second with -onocheck, so I guess it is fast enough.

Pavel

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