Faster mkfs.ext3

[Ling C. Ho]

If you don't need that many inodes, using -T largefile or largefile4, or 
specify a smaller number of inodes will speed things up quite a bit.

...
ling

David Shaw wrote:
> I'm currently working with a testing system that involves running
> mkfs.ext3 on some pretty large devices on a regular basis.  This is
> getting fairly painful, and I was wondering if there was some way to
> speed this up.  Understood that the end result might be a filesystem
> that has less of a safety factor (say, fewer superblock backups) but
> the tradeoff might be worth it in this case.
>
> David
>
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