Hi!

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> > Would e2fsck -D help? What kind of optimization
> > does it perform?
> 
> It will help a little; e2fsck -D compresses the logical view of the
> directory, but it doesn't optimize the physical layout on disk at all,
> and of course, it won't help with the lack of readahead logic.  It's
> possible to improve how e2fsck -D works, at the moment, it's not
> trying to make the directory be contiguous on disk.  What it should
> probably do is to pull a list of all of the blocks used by the
> directory, sort them, and then try to see if it can improve on the
> list by allocating some new blocks that would make the directory more
> contiguous on disk.  I suspect any improvements that would be seen by
> doing this would be second order effects at most, though.

...sounds like a job for e2defrag, not e2fsck...
									Pavel
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