begin Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
#v+ # tune2fs -l /dev/vg1/lvol1 | grep feat Filesystem features: dir_index filetype sparse_super # uname -a Linux joerg 2.4.21 #1 Son Jun 15 15:09:29 MEST 2003 i586 GNU/Linux #v- ,----[ tune2fs(8) ]------ | dir_index | Use hashed b-trees to speed up lookups in large | directories. `------------- > I would not recommend to anyone for production systems... > As said earlier, I'd recommend reiserfs instead. ...if you want shred your data. Joerg. end. -- "It's been said you aren't a real UNIX system administrator until you've edited a sendmail.cf file. It's also been said that you are crazy if you attempted to do so twice"
