>From: "Tony Nelson" <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > At 11:23 AM -0400 7/17/05, Matthew Miller wrote: >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? :) > >No, not yet, thanks anyway. 8) Since Tony posted the script he used to do the testing maybe some people who are using filesystems other than ext 3 could give it a whirl and post their findings. I would volunteer to compile the findings and post a summary. ;-) Mike
