Re: Running LILO causes big scan of /dev

Werner Almesberger (almesber@lrc.epfl.ch)
Sat, 17 Feb 1996 20:47:40 +0100 (MET)

> On another machine with the same version of lilo, this doesn't happen
> (although its configuration is quite different). Can anyone think
> why this might be happening?

I don't know why the scans appear to be slow, but it's quite normal for
LILO to issue lots of stats. (3800-5200 on my systems.) Since Linux
gets them done very quickly, I never really noticed that there were
that many. I guess I'll add a preloaded cache in one of the next versions
to avoid at least some if not all of the scans.

- Werner

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