From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Fedora/1.0.4-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: The X86_64 boot.iso seems to take a very long time when creating the partitions on my Dual Opteron system. The i386 boot.iso from rawhide on the same day takes a few seconds to create the 145GB root partition, but the x86_64 boot.iso seems to take upwards of 10 minutes to do the same work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): FC4T3 Boot.iso, 28MAY05 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install FC4 from the x86_64 boot.iso 2. Create a fairly large root partition(mine is 145GB) 3. Watch the install take 10 minutes or so for the formatting to complete Actual Results: It took about 10 minutes for the formatting of root to complete Expected Results: It should take about the same amount of time as the i386 version. Additional info:
Just tried FC4 x86_64 and the issue still exists. The time is way longer than under i386 FC4.
This can only be fixed by major changes in the internals of e2fsprogs. I am sorry, but I have to defer this until the changes are done upstream.