On Sun 07 Sep 2003, Andrew M. Bishop wrote: > I have another suggestion as well that I just found by searching my > WWWOFFLE cache. The latest Linux kernels have a better ext3 directory > as described at http://lwn.net/Articles/39901/ > > : EXT3. > : ~~~~~ > : - The ext3 filesystem has gained indexed directory support, which offers > : considerable performance gains when used on filesystems with directories > : containing large numbers of files. > : - In order to use the htree feature, you need at least version 1.32 of > : e2fsprogs.
AFAIK this is only a feature in 2.5/2.6 kernels, which at the moment I would not recommend to anyone for production systems... As said earlier, I'd recommend reiserfs instead. Paul Slootman
