As a small experiment... dd if=/dev/zero of=fsfile bs=1M count=16 mkfs.ext4 -F -I 128 fsfile mkdir -p mnt mount -o loop fsfile mnt for I in `seq 1 4096`; do echo $I > mnt/file.$I; done umount mnt tune2fs -I 256 fsfile e2fsck -fy fsfile ... this yields 10031 lines of fsck output, and results in about 38% of the files that were on the filesystem going missing. I don't have the strong sense that tune2fs -I has been shaken out at all; should it be shipping as a useable option? Thanks, -Eric -- 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