[SlugLUG] When Bad Hard Drives Happen to Good Linuxes

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Tue Oct 3 17:50:28 PDT 2006


Quoting cerise at armory.com (cerise at armory.com):

> I do recommend looking into directory hashing (tune2fs -O dir_index ;
> e2fsck -D) when you switch back to ext3 though.

Note:  Option isn't available on 2.4 kernel-based systems (except ones
with backported code a la RH).  Good argument for deep-sixing 2.4.x.

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