cpio to ext4 seems much slower than to ext2, ext3 or xfs

[Eric Sandeen]

Dennis J. wrote:
> On 11/12/2009 04:03 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

...

>>> I'd like to repeat my proviso: I think this test is meaningless for
>>> most users.
>>
>> Until users have 8TB raids at home, which is not really that far off ...
> 
> Let's hope btrfs is production ready before then because extX doesn't 
> look like a fitting filesystem for such big drives due their lack of 
> online fsck.

ext4's fsck is much faster than ext3's, and xfs's repair tool is also 
pretty speedy.

Both are offline, but so far online fsck for btrfs is just a goal, no 
(released, anyway) code yet AFAIK.

-Eric

> Regards,
>   Dennis
>