On Mon, 04 Sep 2023 14:58:06 +1000, Li Dongyang wrote:
> For flex_bg enabled fs, we could merge the
> inode table blocks into a contiguous range,
> this improves mke2fs time on large devices
> when lazy_itable_init is disabled.
>
> On a 977TB device, unpatched mke2fs was running
> for 449m10s before getting terminated manually.
> strace shows huge number of fallocate, given the
> offset from fallocate it has done 41% of the inode
> tables, the estimated time needed would be 1082m.
>
> [...]
Applied, thanks!
[1/1] mke2fs: batch zeroing inode table
commit: a192f4f344456c2390ce946b4a71db0b85ce5665
Best regards,
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Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
