FS#4740 - Fix for annoying ReiserFS mount times?

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Tuesday, 30 May 2006, 20:09 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Those of you using ReiserFS may know that the time required for mounting increases with the filesystem's size, to the point that ReiserFS can develop significant nuisance value on 80+ GB drives. Well, there's a reason for that - ReiserFS is actually caching bitmaps on mount. See here: http://kerneltrap.org/node/6089

As it happens there's also a patch to get rid of this annoyance, created by Jeff Mahoney of SuSE Labs and IIRC included in the -mm kernel as of right now. I'll have to find the actual patch but I think it might be a good idea to include it in the stock kernel, or at least in -beyond, as long as it doesn't break anything.
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Friday, 02 June 2006, 14:26 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 15:56 GMT
well i will not include it until it is in official kernel tree, because i don't want to be the one who breaks dozens of users filesystems.
filesystems are no play ground, so we should stick to verified stuff here by the kernel devs.

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