Is reiserfs slower to mount / on bootup?

From: stu (stuartb_at_thelinuxlink.net)
Date: 10/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:06:04 -0500

I can't seem to find any info or benchmarks on this but I have 2
partitions on an external drive. One is ext2 and the other is reiserfs.
If I mount them I notice that the ext3 is mounted almost instantly and
the reiserfs takes 2.6 seconds even though it is much smaller. I have
SUSE 10 installed on a 100GB disk and during bootup there is a big lag
as / is mounted.
It seems that reiserfs has a bit of a hit to bootup times if you have a
large partition to mount as root.
Anybody else think this is the case?
I would not use a non-journaling fs like ext2, and I understand reiserfs
is a little better at fitting lots of small files into a fs but I don't
like the extra few seconds at bootup.

Thanks for any input

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