From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oleg Drokin Subject: Re: slow mount Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 18:46:09 +0400 Message-ID: <20030612144609.GA27645@namesys.com> References: <1055427629.1875.8.camel@terminus.zapto.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1055427629.1875.8.camel@terminus.zapto.org> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Herbie Hopkins Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com 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