This patch adds the ability to skip zeroing the journal on disk. This can significantly speed up mke2fs with large journals. At worst the uninitialized journal is only a very short-term risk (if at all), because the journal will be overwritten on any new filesystem as soon as any significant amount of data is written to disk, unlike lazy_itable_init which can leave uninitialized itable blocks indefinitely (in the absence of the kernel init thread). Cheers, Andreas
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