[Gllug] Reiserfs faster boot

William Palfreman william at palfreman.com
Sun Oct 7 14:25:34 UTC 2001


On 6 Oct 2001, Nix wrote:

> If you're using 2.4, mkfs your ext2fs filesystems again, make sure
> you're using a recent find, and you'll find *they're* faster; the d_type
> is stored in the direntry now, cutting out the need to stat every file
> to determine if it's a directory or not.

That's interesting.  Is there anything else you need to do, like update
the mke2fs utility?


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