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.

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-bit
HD: 2TB via USB

I need to connect large external hard disks (with many many files) to Ubuntu. I have know idea how Linux kernel is treating the inodes for the external drives, but attaching huge external drives significantly slow down my system.

How can I avoid this failure, as I need to keep the hard disks connected while I'm working.

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.