On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 02:16:05PM -0400, Jason Pyeron wrote: > It is writing an inode every 10 seconds. (1621 inodes in total) > > It is a recent Seagate sata HD. > > MB=Jetway J7F5M1G2E-VHE-PB Is this one of the new 4096-bytes-per-sector Seagate drives? If so, you need to do some research around the 'net to find recommended procedures for aligning partitions. without partitions properly aligned (so that they start on a 4096-byte boundary) things are said to get veeeerrrrrrry sloooooooowwwwwww (though I have no personal experience of it, so I can't speak to HOW slow.) -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ------------------------------- Romans 5:8 (niv) ------------------------------