linux-ext4 - Re: group descriptor contents and LAZY

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Message-ID: <20070328131439.GA2913@thunk.org>
Date:	Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:14:39 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...sterfs.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Girish Shilamkar <girish@...syssoft.com>,
	Kalpak Shah <kalpak@...sterfs.com>
Subject: Re: group descriptor contents and LAZY_BG

On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 03:40:57PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> What do you think for the GDT_CSUM feature that we initialize the group
> descriptors as if the group had actually been formatted?  

I think that makes a huge amount of sense.  Initializing the group
descriptors isn't want takes the huge amount of time; it's
initializing the bitmap blocks and inode table.

						- Ted
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