I need to connect large external hard disks (with many many files) to a system running Ubuntu. I have no idea how the Linux kernel is treating the inodes for the external drives, but attaching huge external drives significantly slows down my system.How can I avoid this slowdown? I need to keep the hard disks connected while I'm working.Ubuntu: 10.04 32-bitHD: 2TB via USB
Connected external HDD slows down system
linux;filesystems;performance;external hdd