On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 11:46:14PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Gerorge Reece-Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "Jochen Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >>You can see that / and /srv are ext3 and /var and /home are xfs. I > >>chose xfs for these because they contain directories with a lot of > >>files (the already mentioned Maildirs and a news spool). So far, I had > >>no problems with xfs. > > > >I'll see how I go with ext3 for now, but I'll keep that in mind. > > Ext2 and ext3 get really slow when you have lots of files (or > subdirectories) in one directory. > > However that was fixed some time ago. If you're running 2.6 you > can enable the dir_index on an ext3 filesystem. See man mkfs.ext3: > > -O feature[,...] > Create filesystem with given features (filesystem options) > > dir_index > Use hashed b-trees to speed up lookups in large > directories. > > > You can enable this on existing filesystems using tune2fs. See man > tune2fs(8) for more information. >
I've looked at the man page. I'm interested in trying this, but I have a question: The -O feature... option allows one to set and clear file system features, but how can I query the system to discover which features are set on which volumes? -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
