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From: Alex Zarochentsev <zam@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: slow mount
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 18:35:08 +0400
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On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:20:29PM +0100, Herbie Hopkins wrote:
> It seems to take a very long time to mount a large reiserfs filesystem:
> 
>   $ time mount /home
>  
>   real    0m17.259s
>   user    0m0.000s
>   sys     0m0.000s
> 
>   $ df -h
> 
>   Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>   [snip]
>   /dev/hda7              44G   12G   33G  26% /home
> 
> is this normal behaviour? as this drastically increases my system statup

Yes. It is normal.

There are  44G / 128M ~= 350 bitmap blocks which are read by reiserfs 
at mount time.

> time. The same partition formatted to ext3 mounts in less than a second
> and this also seems to have no reflection on the amount of data on the
> partition as it still takes this long when the filesystem in empty.
> 
> Any help would be appretiated, thanks.
> Herbie
> 

-- 
Alex.