Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 14 Jan 2006 22:37:42 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: reiserfs mount time |
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>>>brought to attentino on an irc channel, reiser seems to have the largest >>>mount times for big partitions. I see this behavior on at least two >>>machines (160G, 250G) and one specially-crafted virtual machine >>>(a 1.9TB disk / 1.9TB partition - took somewhere over 120 seconds). >>>Here's a dig http://linuxgazette.net/122/misc/piszcz/group001/image002.png >>>from http://linuxgazette.net/122/TWDT.html#piszcz >>>So, any hint from the reiserfs developers how come reiserfs takes so long? >>>Standard mkreiserfs options (none extra passed). >> >> If I remember correctly, the problem is reiserfs loads bitmaps on mount >> and that takes most of the time. Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> has >> patches fixing this but I think Hans rejected them because he wants only >> bugfixes in reiser3... > >Yeah, that's the right analysis. ReiserFS caches bitmaps on mount and >for large file systems it can take a quite a long time.
And quite some memory. But never mind, I already migrated by now. (Not because of mount time, but other factors.)
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