Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] [PATCH] Reducing average ext2 fsck time through fs-wide dirty bit]

[Valerie Henson]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 11:09:18AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 17:10 -0800, Valerie Henson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I am working on reducing the average time spent on fscking ext2 file
> > systems.  My initial take on the problem is to avoid fscking when the
> 
> Just curious, why are you teaching ext2 same tricks that are in ext3 ?
> Is there a reason behind improving ext2 ? Are there any benefits
> of not using ext3 instead ?

ext2 is simpler and faster than ext3 in many cases.  This is sort of
cheating; ext2 is simpler and faster because it makes no effort to
maintain on-disk consistency and can skip annoying things like, oh,
reserving space in the journal.  I am looking for ways to make ext2
cheat even more.

-VAL
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