Increase EXT3 format speed.

Stephane Cerveau scerveau at awox.com
Mon Feb 28 11:18:59 UTC 2011


Dear all,



On certain USB MSC dongle, the mkfs.ext3 can take around 3 min for 4GB. It seems that the process is locked in sync function. Do you know how I could increase the speed of this process?

With mkfs.ext4 it's about 1 min to format it ...





Stéphane Cerveau
Software Engineer

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