Same for me. I looked at the source code and in fsck/main.c, I found a strange call of fsck_sleep() just before quitting.
All that function is doing is fork and let the child process sleep for 5s before returning. The only comment is "Do not allow buffers to be flushed after finishing to avoid another bitmap reading on mounting." I believe that this is an ugly trick to 'speed-up' the mount that usually follows the check. The sleeping background process is supposed to keep the header of the reiser in memory. If I am right, removing the call to fsck_sleep() should be safe. Any volunteer ? :-) OK! I'll try. I have nothing useful on that partition anyways. A goggle search on fsck_sleep does not turn a lot except that the call was removed in opensuse 10.2. -- fsck.reiserfs hangs the system at boot for 5 secs per partition https://launchpad.net/bugs/67301 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
