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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: group descriptor contents and LAZY_BG
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:14:39 -0400
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On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 03:40:57PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> What do you think for the GDT_CSUM feature that we initialize the group
> descriptors as if the group had actually been formatted?  

I think that makes a huge amount of sense.  Initializing the group
descriptors isn't want takes the huge amount of time; it's
initializing the bitmap blocks and inode table.

						- Ted