> WITH your patch:
>
> only 5-10 s waiting when typing "free" or "w" in the other screen window
> during "badblocks"
I can concur, interactive performance is much better during heavy write
than without the patch.
> BTW. I did "umount /" before exiting single mode. No error, but Ctrl-Alt-Del
> caused "INIT: PANIC: segmentation violation". I still had bash, but I had to
> press RESET. On reboot / was clean, but other two SCSI partitions were
> fsck-ed (in single mode all partitions were mounted RW). I have init 2.64.
This particular item isn't kernel related at least :) Actually, if you
have a read only filesystem (and init doesn't know it), then it blindly
tries to open /etc/initrunlvl, which fails, then it writes to it without
checking, and boom, it dies (if I remember the messages correctly from
when I did that exact thing). However, a "shutdown -nr now" would have
worked in your case :)
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