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From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
To: Herbie Hopkins <Herbie@Hopkins.net>
Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: slow mount
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 18:46:09 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030612144609.GA27645@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1055427629.1875.8.camel@terminus.zapto.org>

Hello!

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
>   /dev/hda7              44G   12G   33G  26% /home
> is this normal behaviour? as this drastically increases my system statup

Well. Some kind of a delay is certainly expected, as reiserfs is reading
all the bitmaps 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.

The bitmaps are there no matter if filesystem is empty or not.

Only my 20G fs can be mounted in 1.4s, so may be you have some kind of very slow
drive, or no DMA or something like that?

Bye,
    Oleg

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-12 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-12 14:20 slow mount Herbie Hopkins
2003-06-12 14:18 ` Yury Umanets
2003-06-12 14:35 ` Alex Zarochentsev
2003-06-12 14:39 ` Chris Mason
2003-06-12 14:43   ` Herbie Hopkins
2003-06-12 14:46 ` Oleg Drokin [this message]
2003-06-12 15:26   ` Herbie Hopkins
2003-06-12 15:47   ` Herbie Hopkins
2003-06-12 15:56     ` Hans Reiser
2003-06-12 16:24       ` Herbie Hopkins
2003-06-12 17:26         ` Oleg Drokin
2003-06-12 17:33           ` Herbie Hopkins
2003-06-12 17:38             ` Oleg Drokin

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