Subject: Dirty Quotas? (was: Re: Dirty file system?)
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us>
From: Hubert Feyrer <Hubert.Feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
List: current-users
Date: 04/20/1995 01:46:45
> Rebuild fsck and run it on your filesystems.  Super-mycroft (tm) updated
> several things to support a dirty/clean flag so the /fastboot hack can
> be deprecated.

This is some *very* good news to hear! :-)

One further thought on shortening boot-time: can't such a clean-flag be applied
to the quotas-file, too? Checking quotas is the other annoying thing while
booting that takes up ages...

(quick thought on implementation: before mounting a filesystem, set
quota_dirty_flag:=fs_dirty_flag. Then mount & do fsck if fs_dirty_flag. Then
quotacheck or someone should do it's work if and only if quota_dirty_flag is
true.)

How do other people think on this? Mainly the ones using quotas with NetBSD ;)


Hubert

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