From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Subject: Re: quicker mount
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:42:38 -0400
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Andrea Gelmini wrote:
> Hi all,
> 	mounting 1.9TB partitions (latest stable kernel), takes 3m33s.
> 	What can I do to make it quicker?

It takes so long to mount since ReiserFS reads all the bitmaps before
mounting. The larger the file system, the longer it takes.

I have patches that dynamically load the bitmaps, which makes the mount
nearly instantaneous, but I haven't finished debugging them.

- -Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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