On 10/05/2011 05:42 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> right; for large ext4 fs use (or testing), try
>
> # mkfs.ext4 -E lazy_itable_init=1 /dev/blah
>
> this will cause it to skip inode table initialization, and speed up mkfs a LOT.
> It'll also keep sparse test images smaller.
>
> IMHO this should probably be made default above a certain size.
>
> The tradeoff is that inode table initialization happens in kernelspace, post-mount -
> with efforts made to do it in the background, and not impact other I/O too much.
Sorry, Lukas reminds me that this should already be the default mode, with a
new enough kernel and new enough e2fsprogs. Rawhide should meet those criteria.
yes i know it's not rhel list, but still is it working on rhel-6?
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