Duncan Robertson wrote: <snip dir_index for ext3> > some comments here: > http://info.ccone.at/INFO/Mail-Archives/redhat/Jul-2005/msg00225.html > http://www.surfnetters.nl/paul/fs/ > >seem to indicate variable results with this feature enabled, does anyone >have much experience with it in production Samba environments? > > Interesting links. dir_index is the default under RHEL 4. We've been using it for about two months now, and it works well enough, but I haven't done this kind of performance comparison to see how it compares to no dir_index or to ReiserFS.
>also how well can it be enabled on pre-existing ext3 partitions? > > The tune2fs manpage says that you can do tune2fs -O dir_index /dev/hda1 then e2fsck -D /dev/hda1 I've not tried this. Josh Kelley -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba