On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 02:42:54PM -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > I understand that FFS has some performance problems in directory/file > structures that have over 1000 entires... though I'm not sure this > applies to FFS under FreeBSD-5.x. Can someone comment on this?
No -- you understand incorrectly. Large directories have not been a
problem since UFS_DIRHASH went into the tree, which was, oh, two and a
half years ago:
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=18975+0+archive/2001/freebsd-fs/20010624.freebsd-fs
Not that UFS did badly before that: 1000 entries in one directory
probably wouldn't have been problematic. 10,000 could have been a
different matter. 100,000 would have been difficult to deal with.
UFS_DIRHASH is enabled in the GENERIC kernel, and has been since 2001:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.diff?r1=1.246.2.36&r2=1.246.2.37&only_with_tag=RELENG_4
Cheers,
Matthew
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