Hi, On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 03:49:04PM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > Still, the timings above support the idea that lots of files make adding > and listing slow, and presumably opening a file would be like listing, so > keeping the number of files per directory modest is probably a good idea. > Maybe I'll try that experiment as well. Make sure you're using "htree" directory indexing. For new filesystems, that means using the "-O dir_index" option. For existing filesystems, "tune2fs -O dir_index" then "e2fsck -fD" to index the existing directories (do this offline, of course!). --Stephen
