On Apr 01, 2007 12:11 -0300, Eriberto wrote: > I tested ext3 performance recently and the results were very good. I > used a script to create 40.000 files into ext3 partition and the speed > was 4 seconds. One year before, the result was 55 seconds. Which the > cause of this speed increase?
Likely the mke2fs is enabling the "dir_index" feature by default now. This shows dramatic performance improvements with > 10000 files per directory. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - 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
