Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

[Ric Wheeler]

On 10/04/2011 07:19 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> On 10/03/2011 06:33 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> On 10/3/11 5:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 04:11:28PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>>> testing something more real-world (20T ... 500T?) might still be interesting.
>>> Here's my test script:
>>>
>>>     qemu-img create -f qcow2 test1.img 500T&&   \
>>>       guestfish -a test1.img \
>>>         memsize 4096 : run : \
>>>         part-disk /dev/vda gpt : mkfs ext4 /dev/vda1
> ...
>>> At 100T it doesn't run out of memory, but the man behind the curtain
>>> starts to show.  The underlying qcow2 file grows to several gigs and I
>>> had to kill it.  I need to play with the lazy init features of ext4.
>>>
>>> Rich.
>>>
>> Bleah.  Care to use xfs? ;)
> WHy not btrfs? I am testing a 24TB physical server and ext4 creation
> took forever while btrfs was almost instant. I understand it's still
> experimental (I hear storing virtual disk images on btrfs still has
> unresolved performance problems) but vm disk storage should be fine.
> FWIW I have been using btrfs as my /home at home for some time now;
> so far so good.

Creating an XFS file system is also a matter of seconds (both xfs and btrfs do 
dynamic inode allocation).

Note that ext4 has a new feature that allows inodes to be initialized in the 
background, so you will see much quicker mkfs.ext4 times as well :)

ric