On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 01:19:55AM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:

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> So what you are saying is that what the god father of BSD file systems

> (Marshal Kirk McKusik) is doing is wrong?

	Last year i went to a 2 day kernel internals tutorial run by Kirk MsKusik

	and he was more than aware of these issues with background fsck. Kirk said

	that he wished he had the time to fix it so that it didn't hold up booting

	and that it was a result of the expansion of disk sizes: when he first coded

	it there was no-one using terabyte disks so the delays were acceptable, now

	they are not.  He also went on to say that he would be glad to provide guidence

	to any developer who *did* have the time to fix it.
Regards,
John.