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Message-Id: <E586FDF0-22B6-4FCD-80EB-F33F851AE031@dilger.ca> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:15:59 -0600 From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca> To: Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu> Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] mke2fs: use lazy inode init on some discard-able devices On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 04:41:14PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > If a device supports discard -and- returns 0s for discarded blocks, > then we can skip the inode table initialization -and- the inode table > zeroing at mkfs time, and skip the lazy init as well since they are > already zeroed out. Eric, do you have my patch for skipping the journal zeroing? If you are already skipping the inode table zeroing (which is my bigger of a deal) then you may as well skip zeroing the journal at the same time. Cheers, Andreas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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