Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:48:45 -0800 | From | Valerie Henson <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] [PATCH] Reducing average ext2 fsck time through fs-wide dirty bit] |
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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.
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