Re: Running LILO causes big scan of /dev

Snow Cat (snowcat@math.csufresno.edu)
Sat, 17 Feb 1996 10:11:55 -0800 (PST)

Karl Keyte once wrote:
>
>
> 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?
>

I don't know if it's kernel or libc, but procps on my machine does the same
thing.

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