From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:50:12 GMT
Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.3 vs git benchmarks
Message-ID: <426EC5A4.2090107@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504261405050.18901@ppc970.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds 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?
> 

Boot single-user, "remount -o ro,remount /", "tune2fs -J size=xxxM" and 
reboot.

	-hpa