Running LILO causes big scan of /dev
Karl Keyte (kkeyte@esoc.esa.de)
Fri, 16 Feb 1996 10:03:36 --100
In the last few kernels I've noticed that when I run /sbin/lilo there
is a big delay. It executes fine, but when I trace it I see that it
does many complete scans of the /dev directory. If I actually count
the number of stat() calls made, it's something over 8000 which
certainly accounts for the delay.
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?
Karl