mke2fs options for very large filesystems

[Jeffrey W. Baker]

Wow, it takes a really long time to make a 2TB ext2fs.  Are there
better-than-default options that could be used for a large filesystem?

mke2fs 1.34 (25-Jul-2003)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
244203520 inodes, 488382016 blocks
24419100 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
14905 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
16384 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks: 
        32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 
        4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968, 
        102400000, 214990848

-jwb