On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 06:14:36PM -0500, Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault wrote:
> I have had a similar experience converting from 128 to 256 bytes inodes.
> After a while, tune2fs -I would simply stop doing IO and using a lot of
> CPU with a few IO bursts every half-hour or so. This is on a recent/fast
> x86-64 computer. I had to cancel the thing after leaving it running for
> over 24 hours.
The speed problems have been reported and mostly addressed in the
e2fsprogs git repository. There's one more patch that should
completely solve the tune2fs -I performance problem, but I haven't had
time to audit the patch just yet. It is on my to do list.
- Ted
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