[Ocfs2-users] why does mkfs.ocfs2 take so long?

[Joel Becker]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:23:14AM -0700, Sunil Mushran wrote:
> Two inits take time.
> 1. Cluster group init.
> 2. Journal init.

	Also, joining the cluster takes time.  You are overwriting an
existing volume.  mkfs.ocfs2 will start up the cluster software to
ensure another node is not using the volume.  This takes time.

Joel

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