From: Alexey Lyashkov <alexey.lyashkov@xxxxxxxxxxx> There are ~37k of random IOs with meta_bg option on 300T target. Debugfs requires 20 minutes to be started. Enabling readahead for group blocks metadata save time dramatically. Only 12s to start. Signed-off-by: Alexey Lyashkov <alexey.lyashkov@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/ext2fs/openfs.c | 6 ++++++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/ext2fs/openfs.c b/lib/ext2fs/openfs.c index ba501e6..f158b0a 100644 --- a/lib/ext2fs/openfs.c +++ b/lib/ext2fs/openfs.c @@ -399,6 +399,12 @@ errcode_t ext2fs_open2(const char *name, const char *io_options, #endif dest += fs->blocksize*first_meta_bg; } + + for (i = first_meta_bg ; i < fs->desc_blocks; i++) { + blk = ext2fs_descriptor_block_loc2(fs, group_block, i); + io_channel_cache_readahead(fs->io, blk, 1); + } + for (i=first_meta_bg ; i < fs->desc_blocks; i++) { blk = ext2fs_descriptor_block_loc2(fs, group_block, i); retval = io_channel_read_blk64(fs->io, blk, 1, dest); -- 1.7.1