Increase EXT3 format speed.

Stephane Cerveau <[email protected]> Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:18:59 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.file-systems.ext3.user
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Dear all,



On certain USB MSC dongle, the mkfs.ext3 can take around 3 min for 4GB. It seems that the process is locked in sync function. Do you know how I could increase the speed of this process?

With mkfs.ext4 it's about 1 min to format it ...





Stéphane Cerveau
Software Engineer

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