If the /etc directory has a high inode number compared to other
dirs, and the files in them that get ran at boot time such as
/sbin/*, /bin/*.. is it possible that the drive head will have
to jump all over the disk during rc.d/init.d/* processing? I'm
just curious because I had an "accident" today where my /etc dir
got destroyed and I had to restore it from backup. After the
restoration, at boot time, my hard disk makes some rumbling
noises when "atd" and a few other daemons show up. Just on a
hunch I thought of the above idea and checked the inode
numbers. The numbers for etc are high whereas other dirs are
low. Same for the files in them.
Am I way out in left field here? I'm not too familiar with the
super gory details of on disk data structure in ext2...
Would a defragmentation help?
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