Re: Mercurial 0.3 vs git benchmarks

H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-26T23:43:46Z

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>>>Mounting as ext2 is a useful technique for determining whether the fs is
>>>getting in the way.
>>
>>What's the preferred way to try to convert a root filesystem to a bigger
>>journal? Forcing "rootfstype=ext2" at boot and boot into single-user, and
>>then the appropriate magic tune2fs? Or what?
>>
>
>
> Gee, it's been ages. umm,
>
> - umount the fs
> - tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/whatever
> - fsck -fy (to clean up the now-orphaned journal inode)
> - tune2fs -j -J size=nblocks (normally 4k blocks)
> - mount the fs
>

I think this is overkill, but should of course be safe.

While you're doing this anyway, you might want to make sure you enable
-O +dir_index and run fsck -D.

-hpa