5 Oct
2011
5 Oct
'11
11:32 p.m.
On 10/05/2011 05:42 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
right; for large ext4 fs use (or testing), try
# mkfs.ext4 -E lazy_itable_init=1 /dev/blah
this will cause it to skip inode table initialization, and speed up mkfs a LOT. It'll also keep sparse test images smaller.
IMHO this should probably be made default above a certain size.
The tradeoff is that inode table initialization happens in kernelspace, post-mount - with efforts made to do it in the background, and not impact other I/O too much.
Sorry, Lukas reminds me that this should already be the default mode, with a new enough kernel and new enough e2fsprogs. Rawhide should meet those criteria.
yes i know it's not rhel list, but still is it working on rhel-6?
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