Maybe you were talking non-encrypted, but I noticed a distinct slowdown when fsck'ing encrypted files.* Encrypted pup_saves are mounted as ext2 and not fscked. A comment in the init script says "#forum feedback this takes to long when encrypted..." That's a mis-understanding. When I posted that, some assumed I was talking about an encrypted pup_save, but it was non-encrypted with a lot of files.
My problem with that bit of code is that it stops doing fsck at all with encrypted files. I thought when we were talking about it, way back when, that we were going to fsck every 10th time or so for encrypted pupsaves.
On that download of the src code, I tried it too and it got truncated too. First time I ever ran into that. Wonder what is going on?
BTW I have to report a success. Got a Canon MP390 printer working using CUPS and the recipe at linuxprinting.org. First time printing with Puppy. Too bad the printer has a marginal print head.