At 6:06 PM +0100 4/10/07, Alan Cox wrote: >> Unfortunately, in this case, the directory structure is what it is. I >> can't change it without a massive amount of pain. > >Then you won't get sane performance. The ext3 directory hash does what it >can to improve performance in this case but you'll probably find most of >your extra overhead (compared to users with sane directory structures) is >simply down to filename lookup and directory scanning overhead. Does the volume in question have the dir_index feature set? Note, according to man tune2fs, e2fsck -D will need to be run to make the filesystem sane again. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
