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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:35:52 -0400
From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, rwheeler@...hat.com,
sandeen@...hat.com, adilger@...ger.ca, snitzer@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] Add inititable/noinititable mount options for ext4
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 02:47:27PM +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> Add new mount flag EXT4_MOUNT_INIT_INODE_TABLE and add new pair of mount
> options (inititable/noinititable). When mounted with inititable file
> system should try to initialize uninitialized inode tables, otherwise it
> should prevent initializing inode tables. For now, default is noinittable.
>
> One can also specify inititable=n where n is a number that will be used
> as the wait multiplier (see "Add inode table initialization code into
> Ext4" patch for more info). Bigger number means slower inode table
> initialization thus less impact on performance, but longer
> inititalization (default is 10).
Note: this patch doesn't compile on its own, since it uses s_li_wait
before it is defined (in the next patch).
This is a problem if someone tries to do a "git bisect" and lands
between these two patches.
I'll probably fix this just by merging these two patches together...
- Ted
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