On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 11:48:49AM +0200, Jukka Marin wrote:
> Are the quota checks (file system scans) really necessary at boot time?
> On this particular system, the checks take about 20 minutes.....

Well, are you running a system where you need disk quotas? Few
situations really do.

Updating them at boot (before the system becomes active) is the easy way
to get good numbers - it could be recoded otherwise, but has never been
a feature in demand, as far as I can recall.

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