On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 12:30:50AM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > On a test (loopback) FS, with dir_index I get results similar to before, > while without dir_index, file creation gets very slow fast (100000 files: > 1010 s vs. 34 s), while listing is about the same, and deleting is faster. > > So indexing is (and was) being used, but it doesn't help as much as I would > expect, and it is still better to have only a moderate number of files per > directory. Thanks for doing the experiments -- interesting and good to know. Hmmm; wanna try with ReiserFS? :) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 76 degrees Fahrenheit.
