On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 14:01, Clint Pachl wrote: > I created a new filesystem on a 232.9 GB partition on a 500 GB external > USB drive that will be used as backup storage for dump files. Out of > curiosity, I recreated the filesystem using FFS2 (I never created an > FFS2 before). I noticed it was much faster, so I clocked it for comparison:
FFS2 supports lazy allocated inodes, so initial filesystem creation does that much less writing.