Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:55:03 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] [PATCH] Reducing average ext2 fsck time through fs-wide dirty bit] |
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Valerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 11:09:18AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 17:10 -0800, Valerie Henson wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I am working on reducing the average time spent on fscking ext2 file > > > systems. My initial take on the problem is to avoid fscking when the > > > > Just curious, why are you teaching ext2 same tricks that are in ext3 ? > > Is there a reason behind improving ext2 ? Are there any benefits > > of not using ext3 instead ? > > ext2 is simpler and faster than ext3 in many cases. This is sort of > cheating; ext2 is simpler and faster because it makes no effort to > maintain on-disk consistency and can skip annoying things like, oh, > reserving space in the journal. I am looking for ways to make ext2 > cheat even more. >
But it might be feasible to knock up an ext3-- in which all the journal operations are stubbed out.
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