On May 02, 2007 14:16 -0400, David Shaw wrote: > 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. Do you actually need to use the whole filesystem afterward? Is the performance of the filesystem a critical feature? If not, then you can use "mke2fs -J size=4 -O lazy_bg ..." to make a smaller journal (to avoid zeroing it out) and not zero out the inode tables. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
