Am 29.03.2011 08:03, schrieb Rogier Wolff: >>> >>> Is the slow performance with lots of hard links a known issue? > > > > Yes, it is a known issue. At least its not my fault :-) thanks for the info. > > You get to test my patch. :-) > > > > I strongly suspect that (just like me) sometime in the past you've > > seen e2fsck run out of memory and were advised to enable the > > on-disk-databases. Something like that... The drive has been formatted recently but a bad controller corrupted vital information upon mount and some more on the next fsck. I Ctrl-C pretty fast when I saw lots of rather confusing kernel errors between fsck output. This could have left the drive in a similiar state, couldn't it? -- Christian Brandt life is short and in most cases it ends with death but my tombstone will carry the hiscore -- 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