Faster mkfs.ext3

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Wed May 2 18:16:14 UTC 2007


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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