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Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)



On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote:

> On Sep/26/2001, Christian Kurz wrote:
> 
> > > 	I think that maybe he refers to the fact that, for example, you may
> > > have formatted your ext2 partitions so they are incompatible with 2.0.x
> > Well, I once heared about this, but never read an explanation what
> > exactly causes the differences in the ext2 partitions created while
> > running a 2.0.x kernel and why they have been introduced.
> 
> 	The features are documented in mke2fs(8), under "-O" (or it seems, for
> what I've seen). They don't seem to be too useful (unless I'm missing
> something), but anyway they are there.

IIRC ext2 filesystems created with sparse_super mount a lot faster than
filesystems created without that option. Ext2 mounts of 20+ Gig filesystems
took ages.

					yours,
					peter

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