Comment # 6 on bug 900922 from Marcus Schaefer

Thanks for the video, nice reporting style :-)

So what takes so long on first boot is the creation of the write space.
This happens one time at first boot and thus any subsequent boot is faster

The call in question is:

 mkfs.ext3 -L hybrid -E lazy_itable_init /dev/sdb3

the options we pass here are already used to make it faster but it really
depends on the I/O capabilities of the USB stick how fast this is

I doubt that I can speed up the ext3 creation at that time

what we could try for the future is to use a filesystem without inodes
like btrfs. it should be way faster at creation time

I'll check that once I will find time to test it

Ok with you ?