On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Tom Horsley <horsley1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just reformatted a new 1TB USB 3.0 backup drive to > ext4, mounted it, and I'm watching constant disk > writes on my gkrellm display. I assume this is due > to the ext4lazyinit process which showed up when > I mounted the drive the first time. > > Anyone know how long it is likely to be initializing > the tables? It has been running for about 20 minutes > already. > -- > I would estimate the init would take 1-2 hours. Beware of placing a large number in your ext3/ext4 partition. We made one with millions of them - and it took us on the order of 10 hours to fsck it. We could not afford that so we switched to xfs. Boris.
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