Hello, I have a 3.8 machine with millions of files. The exact number of files varies a lot but it's always more than 5M. One day I had a power failure and I had to wait for fsck to complete on reboot. Fsck took more than two hours! At that time there were 8,8M files on the drive. Is there any way to make fsck go faster?
The machine is AMD Athlon 1700+ with 200G Seagate Barracuda on SATA slot. Unfortunately I cannot get dmesg at this point but I don't think that's necessary. Kernel is 3.8 GENERIC and there is one large ffs partition on the SATA disc, roughly the size of 180G. Most of the files (approximately 90%) are hardlinks. Disc usage is somewhere between 30G and 170G. Any pointers will be appreciated, thanks in advance! Antti Harri
