Varshavchick Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had a directory with a lot of files (about 100 000), and naturally, the > size of the directory entry itself was big enough (about 1M). Now I've > split all these files to different subdirectories, to increase the system > performance. The major directory entry size didn't change, however such a > big value is not needed now. > > Now here is a question - can an unnessesary big value of a directory > entry size harm the system performance? I guess it does not, is it > correct?
If the files were created without the dirhash code in your kernel, it certainly could. It still could with the dirhash, but shouldn't be noticeable at the 100,000-file level. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
