Re: reiserfs mount time

[Jan Kara]

  Hello,

> 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@xxxxxxxx> has
patches fixing this but I think Hans rejected them because he wants only
bugfixes in reiser3...

								Honza

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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SuSE CR Labs
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