Re: [Patch] Cleanup struct gendisk registration, 2.3.40-pre1

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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The proper solution for this is not to cache the thing, it's to just not
> do it in the first place. Use the "nocheck" option or something like that
> in your fstab, and you'll be a lot happier at boot-time.

Thanks !! I always wondered what kind of design stupidity forced ext2 to
read massive amounts of data before it could do any useful work ...

- Werner

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