From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: slow mount Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:56:16 +0400 Message-ID: <3EE8A2A0.2080500@namesys.com> References: <1055427629.1875.8.camel@terminus.zapto.org> <20030612144609.GA27645@namesys.com> <1055432836.8601.3.camel@terminus.zapto.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <1055432836.8601.3.camel@terminus.zapto.org> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Herbie Hopkins Cc: Oleg Drokin , Reiserfs Herbie Hopkins wrote: >Interestingly enough a 20G fs on the same drive takes 0.9s to mount. >Should a 40G partition not take roughly twice as long as a 20G partition >to mount? > Yes. > >On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 15:46, Oleg Drokin wrote: > > >>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 >> >> > > > > > Is the hardware starting to fail and doing lots of retries maybe? -- Hans