Re: Mercurial 0.3 vs git benchmarks

H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-26T22:51:04Z

Linus Torvalds 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?
>

Boot single-user, "remount -o ro,remount /", "tune2fs -J size=xxxM" and
reboot.

-hpa