According to the release notes this bug has been fixed in version 1.40:
http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs-release.html#1.40 E2fsprogs 1.40 (June 29, 2007) There was a floating point precision error which could cause e2fsck to loop forever on really big filesystems with a large inode count. (Addresses Debian Bug: #411838)
What are the odds of this getting included in CentOS 5.6?
I am guessing this bug is still present in CentOS 4.8?
[root@server ~]# uname -a Linux server.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX-.net 2.6.9-78.0.13.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jan 14 16:12:46 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [root@server ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 4.8 (Final) [root@server ~]# e2fsck -V e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) Using EXT2FS Library version 1.35, 28-Feb-2004
How slow would this be with ~500K files?
Matt