e2fsck takes a long time

[Rick Stevens]

Chiu, PCM (Peter) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This probably is an old issue.
> 
> Is there anyway to speed up the ext3 file system check at boot up time?
> 
> One of our systems got 2 x 1.6TB RAIDs, and they took over 10 hours to
> complete.
>  
> They are ext3 file systems, are there more efficient file systems to get
> round this?

Supposedly, reiserfs is the fastest.  I've never actually used it on a
production basis, but I've built, installed and tested it and was pretty
impressed.

For details on reiserfs, hit "http://www.namesys.com/"
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