On 10/05/2011 05:42 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> right; for large ext4 fs use (or testing), try >> >> # mkfs.ext4 -E lazy_itable_init=1 /dev/blah >> >> this will cause it to skip inode table initialization, and speed up mkfs a LOT. >> It'll also keep sparse test images smaller. >> >> IMHO this should probably be made default above a certain size. >> >> The tradeoff is that inode table initialization happens in kernelspace, post-mount - >> with efforts made to do it in the background, and not impact other I/O too much. > > Sorry, Lukas reminds me that this should already be the default mode, with a > new enough kernel and new enough e2fsprogs. Rawhide should meet those criteria. yes i know it's not rhel list, but still is it working on rhel-6? -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!" -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
