On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:05:20PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > ext2 > elapsed time: 5.21 seconds > ext3 > elapsed time: 7.87 seconds > ext4 > elapsed time: 6.10 seconds > xfs > elapsed time: 0.45 seconds > jfs > elapsed time: 0.78 seconds Sod it, let's do all the others too ... $ for fs in reiserfs nilfs2 ntfs msdos btrfs hfs hfsplus gfs gfs2 ; do guestfish sparse /tmp/test.img 10G : run : echo $fs : sfdiskM /dev/sda , : time mkfs $fs /dev/sda1 ; done reiserfs elapsed time: 1.15 seconds nilfs2 elapsed time: 0.12 seconds ntfs elapsed time: 3.09 seconds msdos elapsed time: 0.38 seconds btrfs elapsed time: 0.07 seconds hfs elapsed time: 0.42 seconds hfsplus elapsed time: 0.49 seconds gfs elapsed time: 5.37 seconds gfs2 elapsed time: 4.93 seconds (By the way I really don't think that mkfs time matters that much :-) Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list