Estimating mount time completion in file systems

A computer program product comprising:

• one or more computer readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instructions comprising:
• program instructions to, at a time of unmounting a storage media, provide an index file, wherein the index file records information stored in the storage media;
• program instructions to store information associated with a number of tags of the index file, a type of contents of the tags, and a size of contents of an element, in response to unmounting the storage media;
• and
• program instructions to calculate, based on the stored information, a predicted time associated with loading the index file into a memory during a mounting operation of the storage media.

A computer system comprising:

• one or more computer processors;
• one or more computer readable storage media;
• program instructions stored on the computer readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the program instructions comprising:
• program instructions to, at a time of unmounting a storage media, provide an index file, wherein the index file records information stored in the storage media;
• program instructions to store information associated with a number of tags of the index file, a type of contents of the tags, and a size of contents of an element, in response to unmounting the storage media;
• and
• program instructions to calculate, based on the stored information, a predicted time associated with loading the index file into a memory during a mounting operation of the storage media.