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

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Mon Jan 17 2000 - 17:21:23 EST


On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>The thing is, that you can do that as easily in user space by having a
>"ext2fastcheck" thing or similar, something that CAN make sense.

Yes, it could be done with a fsck option.

>What it really is, is just a "fast fsck". And it should be treated as
>such. It should _not_ be some silly mount option.

And in turn not either linked into the kernel :).

Andrea

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