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Re: newfs speed?

To: Dave Sill <ds-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: newfs speed?
From: Bryan-TheBS-Smith <b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 16:15:30 -0400
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Organization: SmithConcepts/AbsoluteValueSystems
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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?

Near-instantenous, because XFS creates inodes on-the-fly.
Now if you want to convert to XFS, that's a whole different story.
Backup and restore works fastest.  ;-PPP

-- TheBS

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