On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 09:16:41AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > ext3 tries to keep inodes in the same block group as their containing > directory. If you have lots of hard links, obviously it can't really > do that, especially since we don't have a good way at mkdir time to > tell the filesystem, "Psst! This is going to be a hard link clone of > that directory over there, put it in the same block group".
Hmm, you think such a hint interface would be worth it? > > > What has helped a bit was to recreate the file system with -O^dir_index > > dir_index seems to cause more seeks. > > Part of it may have simply been recreating the filesystem, not Undoubtedly. > necessarily removing the dir_index feature. Dir_index speeds up > individual lookups, but it slows down workloads that do a readdir But only for large directories right? For kernel source like directory sizes it seems to be a general loss. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
