On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 05:48:05PM +1300, Paul Collins wrote: > I just ran "tune2fs -I 256 /dev/sda3" and it took about an hour and > forty minutes. The filesystem is about 33GiB, 3/4 full, ~85,000 inodes. > The machine is a 2.13GHz Core 2 Duo, SATA disk. It seemed to be > CPU-bound, soaking up a core for the whole run. Does this sound right? > > Running e2fsprogs 1.41.3-1 from Debian unstable. You're not the first person to have reported this. I don't think anyone has had a chance to look at it, but it's something we clearly need to pay attention to --- 33 GB isn't that big of a filesystem, as filesystems go, and an hour and a half and being CPU bound is not a good thing. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html