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From: "Jose R. Santos" <jrs@us.ibm.com>
To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 10/13][e2fsprogs] Update uninit block group documetation for some of the utilities.
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:17:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071011191700.4599.52842.stgit@gara> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071011191559.4599.69332.stgit@gara>

From: Jose R. Santos <jrs@us.ibm.com>

Update uninit block group documetation for some of the utilities.

Upadates documentation man pages for mke2fs(8) and tune2fs(8)

Signed-off-by: Jose R. Santos <jrs@us.ibm.com>
--

 misc/mke2fs.8.in  |    9 ++++++++-
 misc/tune2fs.8.in |   12 ++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.8.in b/misc/mke2fs.8.in
index a3dc4a1..171df5b 100644
--- a/misc/mke2fs.8.in
+++ b/misc/mke2fs.8.in
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ for the filesystem.  (For administrators who are creating
 filesystems on RAID arrays, it is preferable to use the
 .I stride
 RAID parameter as part of the
-.B \-R
+.B \-E
 option rather than manipulating the number of blocks per group.)  
 This option is generally used by developers who
 are developing test cases.  
@@ -406,6 +406,13 @@ Store file type information in directory entries.
 .TP
 .B has_journal
 Create an ext3 journal (as if using the
+.TP
+.B uninit_groups
+Create a filesystem without initializing all of the groups.  This speeds
+up filesystem creation time noticably, and can also reduce
+.BR e2fsck time
+dramatically.  This feature causes the filesystem to be read-only in
+older kernels is not supported in most Linux kernels, use with caution.
 .B \-j
 option).
 @JDEV@.TP
diff --git a/misc/tune2fs.8.in b/misc/tune2fs.8.in
index 2e617db..5ab1bd0 100644
--- a/misc/tune2fs.8.in
+++ b/misc/tune2fs.8.in
@@ -392,10 +392,16 @@ option.
 .TP
 .B sparse_super
 Limit the number of backup superblocks to save space on large filesystems.
+.TP
+.B uninit_groups
+Allow the kernel to initialize bitmaps and inode tables and keep a high
+watermark for the unused inodes in a filesystem, to reduce
+.BR e2fsck (8)
+time.
 .RE
 .IP
 After setting or clearing 
-.B sparse_super
+.BR sparse_super , " uninit_groups" ,
 and 
 .B filetype 
 filesystem features,
@@ -414,7 +420,9 @@ can be run to convert existing directories to the hashed B-tree format.
 Linux kernels before 2.0.39 and many 2.1 series kernels do not support
 the filesystems that use any of these features.
 Enabling certain filesystem features may prevent the filesystem from
-being mounted by kernels which do not support those features.
+being mounted by kernels which do not support those features.  The
+.B uninit_groups
+feature is not yet supported by any released kernel.
 .TP
 .BI \-r " reserved-blocks-count"
 Set the number of reserved filesystem blocks.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-11 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-11 19:15 [PATCH 00/13][e2fsprogs] Uninit block group break down Jose R. Santos
2007-10-11 19:16 ` [PATCH 01/13][e2fsprogs] Add initial checksum support Jose R. Santos
2007-10-15  2:46   ` Theodore Tso
2007-10-15  9:43     ` Jose R. Santos
2007-10-15 11:55       ` Theodore Tso
2007-11-13 23:04     ` Karel Zak
2007-10-15 20:53   ` Theodore Tso
2007-10-11 19:16 ` [PATCH 02/13][e2fsprogs] Add uninit block group support on libe2fs Jose R. Santos
2007-10-11 19:16 ` [PATCH 03/13][e2fsprogs] Rename feature name from gdt_checksum to uninit_groups Jose R. Santos
2007-10-11 19:16 ` [PATCH 04/13][e2fsprogs] Add support for creating filesystems using uninit block group Jose R. Santos
2007-10-11 19:16 ` [PATCH 05/13][e2fsprogs] Make tune2fs uninit block group aware Jose R. Santos
2007-10-11 19:16 ` [PATCH 06/13][e2fsprogs] Make dumpe2fs " Jose R. Santos
2007-10-11 19:16 ` [PATCH 07/13][e2fsprogs] Make resize2fs " Jose R. Santos
2007-10-11 19:16 ` [PATCH 08/13][e2fsprogs] Make debugfs " Jose R. Santos
2007-10-11 19:16 ` [PATCH 09/13][e2fsprogs] Make e2fsck " Jose R. Santos
2007-10-11 19:17 ` Jose R. Santos [this message]
2007-10-11 19:17 ` [PATCH 11/13][e2fsprogs] Fix test cases Jose R. Santos
2007-10-11 19:17 ` [PATCH 12/13][e2fsprogs] Add new mm_lazy test case Jose R. Santos
2007-10-11 19:17 ` [PATCH 13/13][e2fsprogs] Add m_uninit " Jose R. Santos
2007-11-01  9:48   ` Coly Li
2007-11-01  9:58     ` Coly Li
2007-11-01 11:03       ` Jose R. Santos
2007-11-01 11:26         ` Jose R. Santos
2007-11-01 12:11           ` Coly Li
2007-11-01 12:10         ` Coly Li

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