Faster mkfs.ext3
Ling C. Ho
ling at fnal.gov
Wed May 2 18:59:29 UTC 2007
If you don't need that many inodes, using -T largefile or largefile4, or
specify a smaller number of inodes will speed things up quite a bit.
...
ling
David Shaw wrote:
> I'm currently working with a testing system that involves running
> mkfs.ext3 on some pretty large devices on a regular basis. This is
> getting fairly painful, and I was wondering if there was some way to
> speed this up. Understood that the end result might be a filesystem
> that has less of a safety factor (say, fewer superblock backups) but
> the tradeoff might be worth it in this case.
>
> David
>
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