Subject: Re: Can sparc boot from ffs2 root partition?
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/03/2004 06:51:13
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On Jan 23, 2004, at 12:58 PM, David Laight wrote:

> IIRC that can only be because it knows the highest inode number 
> allocated
> (in each cylinder group).  I wouldn't have thought that would save 
> much?
> (and can you believe the limit in the superblock anyway).

I can say from experience that if you have a small number of large 
files, fsck on FFSv2 is quite a lot faster.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>


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