<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>You can speed up mke2fs by reducing the inode count (-i or -N) if your average file size is over 8kB, reduce the journal size (-J size=4) and/or use the lazy_journal_init patch I posted recently, and/or use the lazy_itable_init option. I assume since format performance is important that you do it often and the risk of an uninitialized inode table is low. </div><div> </div><div>Or, you could use ext4, which is also faster at runtime, not just format time. Cheers, Andreas</div><div> On 2011-02-28, at 4:18, Stephane Cerveau <<a href="mailto:scerveau@awox.com">scerveau@awox.com</a>> wrote: </div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div> <div class="WordSection1"> Dear all,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 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? <o:p></o:p> With mkfs.ext4 it’s about 1 min to format it …<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Stéphane Cerveau Software Engineer<o:p></o:p> <a href="mailto:scerveau@awox.com">scerveau@awox.com</a><o:p></o:p> Phone: +33 4 99 53 27 39<o:p></o:p> 93, Pierre Duhem 34000 Montpellier FRANCE Phone: +33 4 67 47 10 00 Fax: +33 4 67 47 10 15 <image001.jpg><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </div> __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5913 (20110228) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. <a href="http://www.eset.com"><a href="http://www.eset.com">http://www.eset.com</a></a> </div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>_______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Ext3-users@redhat.com">Ext3-users@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users</a></div></blockquote></body></html>