On 13/03/2013 22:29, Peter Grandi wrote: >> > It also has 0 reserved blocks. > That's usually a truly terrible setting (20% is a much better > value), but your filesystem is not very full anyhow. This filesystem has no file owned by root and won't have any. I thought in this case -m0 would be a good idea. Thanks a lot for your detailed insight on the various performance figures, I didn't do the proper math to realize that this inode reading rate was actually *good*. Fortunately the client is technically savvy, and pointing him at this mailing-list thread will help make him the right decision. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users