Re: Running LILO causes big scan of /dev

Ulrich Windl (Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de)
Mon, 19 Feb 1996 09:39:29 +0100


On 17 Feb 96 at 20:47, Werner Almesberger wrote:

> > 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

Why so many? There are only a few files needed for the configuration.

> 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.

Ulrich