On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:25:31 -0700 Avantika Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In pass1 of e2fsck, every inode table in the fileystem is scanned and > checked, > regardless of whether it is in use. This is this the most time consuming > part > of the filesystem check. The unintialized block group feature can greatly > reduce e2fsck time by eliminating checking of uninitialized inodes. > > With this feature, there is a a high water mark of used inodes for each block > group. Block and inode bitmaps can be uninitialized on disk via a flag in the > group descriptor to avoid reading or scanning them at e2fsck time. A checksum > of each group descriptor is used to ensure that corruption in the group > descriptor's bit flags does not cause incorrect operation. This needed a few fixups due to conflicts with ext2-ext3-ext4-add-block-bitmap-validation.patch but they were pretty straightforward. Please check that the result is OK. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
