Subject: Re: Can sparc boot from ffs2 root partition?
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/23/2004 20:58:21
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 05:40:44PM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>
> On Jan 21, 2004, at 2:27 PM, David Laight wrote:
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> > IMHO ffsv2 (as included in netbsd) has no benefits over the ffsv1 code.
>
> fsck can run much faster on FFSv2
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).
David
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