Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751085AbWANUeM (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 15:34:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751086AbWANUeM (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 15:34:12 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:40128 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751085AbWANUeL (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 15:34:11 -0500 Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 21:34:10 +0100 From: Jan Kara To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , jeffm@suse.com Subject: Re: reiserfs mount time Message-ID: <20060114203410.GB21901@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1089 Lines: 25 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 has patches fixing this but I think Hans rejected them because he wants only bugfixes in reiser3... Honza -- Jan Kara SuSE CR Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/