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Re: newfs speed?

To: Dave Sill <ds-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: newfs speed?
From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 16:13:50 -0400 (EDT)
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On 3 Oct 2001 at 4:03pm, Dave Sill wrote

> I've got a 200GB h/w RAID 5 that I want to convert from e2fs to
> XFS. It takes ~8 hours to fsck it now. About how long will it take to
> newfs as XFS?

mkfs will take about 5 seconds (if that).  Ditto for recovery after a hard
crash (as witnessed by me when the system drive of the box hosting my
560GB h/w RAID died).  Does that work for you?  ;)

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University


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