On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:03:53AM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > This depends on the size of the filesystem and if dma is enabled or not. > enabling DMA speeds up filesystem creation a lot on big disks. With DMA > disabled it can take several minutes to create a big filesystem.
It can, even with DMA. autopartkit uses at least a few minutes when creating an ext2 filesystem on a 75GB disk (with DMA). > I suggest a simple solution. I think the most important thing is that > users don't see a blue screen for several seconds like it's now, but a > progress bar. I would only step it forward after one filesystem is > created, so we don't have to parse mkfs.* output. A setup with only one > root partition and one swap would have two steps: > 0% creating filesystem on /dev/... > 50% creating swap on /dev/... > 100% finished It would definitely help compared to what we have today, but it would still suck. > I think one point of having partitioner is, that it does not use > libparted for filesystem creation and is therefore more versatile and > less prone to errors. Why would running mkfs.ext2 be more versatile than using libparted? (Like I said, I'd use mkfs.* for JFS etc., but ATM we don't even have that on our install disks. :-) ) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
