cpio to ext4 seems much slower than to ext2, ext3 or xfs
Eric Sandeen
sandeen at redhat.com
Thu Nov 12 16:59:55 UTC 2009
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
>
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