ls -l takes a forever to finish.

[Bart Silverstrim]

Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> ls | wc
> 
> strange. i did
> 
> [wojtek at wojtek ~/b]$ a=0;while [ $a -lt 10000 ];do mkdir $a;a=$[a+1];done
> 
> completed <25 seconds on 1Ghz CPU
> 
> ls takes 0.1 seconds user time, ls -l takes 0.3 second user time.
> 
> unless you have 486/33 or slower system there is something wrong.

Has anyone tried fsck and/or smartmontools on the drive?  Maybe 
something like Spinrite?