<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Tom Horsley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:horsley1953@gmail.com">horsley1953@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I just reformatted a new 1TB USB 3.0 backup drive to<br>
ext4, mounted it, and I'm watching constant disk<br>
writes on my gkrellm display. I assume this is due<br>
to the ext4lazyinit process which showed up when<br>
I mounted the drive the first time.<br>
<br>
Anyone know how long it is likely to be initializing<br>
the tables? It has been running for about 20 minutes<br>
already.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">--<br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I would estimate the init would take 1-2 hours.</div><div><br></div><div>Beware of placing a large number in your ext3/ext4 partition. We made one with millions of them - and it took us on the order of 10 hours to fsck it. We could not afford that so we switched to xfs.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Boris.</div></div>