[Ocfs2-devel] vmstore option - mkfs

Sunil Mushran sunil.mushran at oracle.com
Wed Nov 16 09:26:15 PST 2011


fstype is a handy way to format the volume with parameters that are thought
to be useful for that use-case. The result of this is printed during format by
way of the parameters selected. man mkfs.ocfs2 has a blurb about the features
it enabled by default.

On 11/16/2011 08:45 AM, Artur Baruchi wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I tried to find some information about the option vmstore when
> formating a device, but didnt found anything about it (no
> documentation, I did some greps inside the source code, but nothing
> returned). My doubts about this:
>
> - What kind of optimization this option creates in my file system to
> store vm images? I mean.. what does exactly this option do?
> - Where, in source code, I can find the part that makes this optimization?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Att.
> Artur Baruchi
>




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