Re: fsck performance on large RAID arrays ?

[MOLNAR Ingo]

On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, A James Lewis wrote:

> 20 to 30 mins is a long time, but it's to be expected for an unclean
> shutdown....
> 
> What journalling filesystem are we thinking of?  Hopefully we don't have
> to loose the advantages we have built up the ext2..... perhaps it will be
> ext3?

Stephen Tweedie is working on the journalling extensions. [not sure what
the current status is, he had a working prototype end of last year.]
AFAIK, these extensions will not destroy anything we have with ext2fs,
they are (as usual) optional. I'd call it ext3fs too because the changes
themselves are bigger than ext2fs itself, and together with all the other
upcoming 2.3 features (ACLs, trees, compression, etc.) it will be
significantly different from 'classic' ext2fs, but it's up to Stephen ... 

-- mingo