Thats what I was afraid of. Yes it is indeed ext2, not ext3. Maybe I'll try converting it to ext3 and retest.
Thanks for the info. Corey On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Chris Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > Once upon a time, Corey Kovacs <[email protected]> said: > > Kevin, thanks for the explanation. This coincides perfectly which what I > am > > seeing. > > > > Next question is, is there a way to clean up the TOC? > > On ext* (and in fact, most Unix filesystems), directories never shrink. > The only way to clean it up is to move everything remaining to a new > directory and remove the old directory. E.g. something like: > > $ cp -al huge_directory foo && mv huge_directory old && mv foo > huge_directory && rm -rf old > > As for the performance issue: are you really using ext2 and not ext3? > Newer versions of ext3 use directory hashing to speed up large directory > accesses (so that directory growth does not impact performance much). > -- > Chris Adams <[email protected]> > Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services > I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list >
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