Re: slow mount

[Yury Umanets <umka@namesys.com>]

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
>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
>
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Bitmaps are read in mount time. And this realy does not depend on data 
amount, only on filesystem size.

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Yury Umanets
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