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jw schultz wrote:
> 
> ...
> Gating back to the original issue which was "readahead" of
> stat() info...
> 

ext3 does directory readahead.  ext2 does not.  If someone can
demonstrate any advantage which ext3 gets from this, we can put
it back into ext2 as well.

inode readahead would be pretty simple to do.