On Thu, 15 May 2003, Florin Iucha wrote: > I would not bet on the data being stored sequentially: the inode > allocator tries to spread the directory inodes around to reduce > fragmentation - if you leave some space between directories A and B, A > can grow without getting fragmented. Hrm, good point. I'm glad someone knows a bit more about filesystem internals than I do. :) Well, I think I'll let 3ware's 'forced rebuild' run overnight, and see if it can manage to shuffle together a filesystem that can be mounted again. If not.. time to download a whole bunch of crap again, and buy some hot spare disks. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list