Re: ext2/3 create large filesystem takes too much time; solutions

2006-09-17 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Sep 16, 2006 16:06 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 05:56:02PM +0300, Pavel Mironchik wrote: I agree with you and I would prefer to send something more serious on that list than those previous patches - I like your idea with counters. Btw I assume crc is more

Re: ext2/3 create large filesystem takes too much time; solutions

2006-09-16 Thread Pavel Mironchik
Hi Ted, Thanks for the responce... I agree with you and I would prefer to send something more serious on that list than those previous patches - I like your idea with counters. Btw I assume crc is more preferable than just control sum for block group descriptors Pavel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ext2/3 create large filesystem takes too much time; solutions

2006-09-16 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 05:56:02PM +0300, Pavel Mironchik wrote: Hi Ted, Thanks for the responce... I agree with you and I would prefer to send something more serious on that list than those previous patches - I like your idea with counters. Btw I assume crc is more preferable than just

ext2/3 create large filesystem takes too much time; solutions

2006-09-12 Thread Pavel Mironchik
Hi, Ext2/3 does erase of inode tables, when do creation of new systems. This is very very long operation when the target file system volume is more than 2Tb. Other filesystem are not affected by such huge delay on creation of filesystem. My concern was to improve design of ext3 to decrease time