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

Valerie Henson <val_henson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.


But it might be feasible to knock up an ext3-- in which all the journal
operations are stubbed out.

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