On Dec 13, 2014, at 4:40 PM, Patrick Bartek <nemomm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 15 seconds extra, a couple times a year isn't all THAT bad. > > FWIW, I think I found out why ext4 fsck's faster than ext3 (or the other > exts). Seems ext4 only checks the part of the filesystem that's been > used/writtento/etc. instead of the entire filesystem/partition. Yes, that’s the secret sauce. There was a paper (in Usenix FAST, I think) about what’s new in ext4. My own experience is with ext4 filesystems of up to 6 TB. The application is radio station automation. A half hour show is about 600GB, so lots of very big files. Total time to do a full fsck is under two minutes. It can be nerve-wracking when the station is down because the server decided to reboot and do an fsck, but it’s *way* better than it used to be with ext3! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/d85313ea-3170-4afe-91f0-f605f8965...@pobox.com
