On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 12:15, David B Harris wrote: > (That's a really long recipient list - does this need only go to > reiserfs-list@namesys.com and [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:45:09 +0400 > Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > it now prints two random credits rather than all of them, and credits > > for the developers are in place. suggestions about how to improve this > > while preserving the credits (e.g. printing them at a different stage of > > mkreiserfs, etc.) are welcome. > > If mkreiserfs was slower, I would suggest printing them at the start of > the program. It gives people something to read while they're waiting for > it to finish. (They would probably be more likely to read it, too.) >
> It takes less than 4 seconds on a regular file of 410M here, though, so > that's not a whole lot of time. Does it take longer on bigger > filesystems? Lots of people are making many-gigabyte filesystems these > days, so perhaps that really is a good idea. mkreiserfs creates bitmaps, and bitmap count depends on partition size, so it will take longer time on bigger partitions. -- We're flying high, we're watching the world passes by...
