Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] [PATCH] Reducing average ext2 fsck time through fs-wide dirty bit]

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Valerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 11:09:18AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 17:10 -0800, Valerie Henson wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I am working on reducing the average time spent on fscking ext2 file
> > > systems.  My initial take on the problem is to avoid fscking when the
> > 
> > Just curious, why are you teaching ext2 same tricks that are in ext3 ?
> > Is there a reason behind improving ext2 ? Are there any benefits
> > of not using ext3 instead ?
> 
> ext2 is simpler and faster than ext3 in many cases.  This is sort of
> cheating; ext2 is simpler and faster because it makes no effort to
> maintain on-disk consistency and can skip annoying things like, oh,
> reserving space in the journal.  I am looking for ways to make ext2
> cheat even more.
> 

But it might be feasible to knock up an ext3-- in which all the journal
operations are stubbed out.