Re: Mercurial 0.3 vs git benchmarks

[H. Peter Anvin]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > > Mounting as ext2 is a useful technique for determining whether the fs is
> > > getting in the way.
> >
> > What's the preferred way to try to convert a root filesystem to a bigger
> > journal? Forcing "rootfstype=ext2" at boot and boot into single-user, and
> > then the appropriate magic tune2fs? Or what?
>
>
> Gee, it's been ages.  umm,
>
> - umount the fs
> - tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/whatever
> - fsck -fy                              (to clean up the now-orphaned journal inode)
> - tune2fs -j -J size=nblocks    (normally 4k blocks)
> - mount the fs

I think this is overkill, but should of course be safe.

While you're doing this anyway, you might want to make sure you enable 
-O +dir_index and run fsck -D.

	-hpa
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