On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 02:22:51PM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > I didn't want to try a million files. Creation and listing seem to be > linear with the number of files, but rm seems quadratic. I think this > indicates that in my current 2.6.12 FC3 kernel using Ext3 the directory > data structure is still a list and not a tree. I get similar results with your script. But try "dumpe2fs | grep features" on your filesystem and look for dir_index. (Mine has it.) Then, if you want, try using tune2fs to turn it off and retry the test.... -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 77 degrees Fahrenheit.
