Hi, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Yes, and also of its predecessors ext2 and ext3.
Thanks for the info. As i failed to find it myself: Do you know a link or man page where this is specified ? After all it imposes massive performance penalties which made me suspicious on the first hand. Does nobody else complain ? What do the big guys use instead ? (I used Reiser FS for the last years. My older ext2 instances never had to stand that workload.) > There's the -D option for fsck that optimizes directories, this should make > them return to the smallest size, but the filesystem must be unmounted. Thanks again. It would last a while to find all pwd pointing into it, but elsewise it is a mere data partition and could be umounted without reboot. Have a nice day :) Thomas
