On 27 September 2013 22:13, James Harper <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I've chosen a 4MB of data per inode ratio based on some rough calculations,
> but while my mkfs.ext3 <dev> -i 4194304 just raced through initially, when it
> got to "Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information:" it just
> seemed to hang. Strace says it's doing seek, write 4k, seek, write 4k, over
> and over again. I hit ^C and the process is now [mkfs.ext3], but the system
> is still pegged at 100% disk utilisation.
( sorry James for the double reply )
Hi, I am no expert but in case it helps I have used mkfs.ext3 -T
largefile4 in the past without problems on a single 1TB drive and it
was a little faster, not slower, than other mkfs. According to
/etc/mke2fs.conf that is equivalent to
inode_ratio = 4194304
blocksize = -1
so if I was seeing your symptoms I wouldn't be blaming that. Maybe
test it on an individual drive/s first?
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