Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is true, however if you are choosing features then omit filetype > from your -O list. The Hurd and Linux are mutually robust in use of the > filetype feature, but the Hurd will write only 0 (i.e. "unknown") filetype > fields and e2fsck will blather about fixing them all (both Hurd and Linux > behave just fine with either 0 or nonzero values for the field).
If filetypes speed up Linux then I don't see why I should leave them out, even if they slow down fsck. Or do they need extra space on the disk?