fsck parallel check

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> 16.04.2020 23:59, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> > --------
> > In message <571d8b81-f4f9-d371-6cf2-2e7aeb82a09b at grosbein.net>, Eugene Grosbein writes:
> > 
> >> Not necessary. Fsck tries to parse device name this way: /path/to/nameNUMBERrest
> >> so it skips all chars upto last /, then extracts "name" part not containing any digits,
> >> then extracts NUMBER part containing only digits, upto maximum lenght.
> >> Then is uses nameNUMBER for "disk name".
> > 
> > Yeah, that part sucks...
> > 
> > I think it would make sense to make the heuristic that if there are any
> > entries with pass > 2, then ignore the "disk name" and simply run all
> > entries for each pass number in parallel, trusting root to have it
> > figured out.
> > 
> > If the highest passnumber is 2, retain the "disk name" heuristic.
> 
> I like it.

Consider my semi-silence a "no objection here".


-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org