On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 04:53:08PM +1200, Carl Cerecke wrote:
> So that's why my directory with almost 200,000 small files has sucky
> performance. To tar/untar the files takes around half an hour on a
> decent machine, and the tar.bz2 file is only 10 MB.
What, exactly, was slow? There have been some new features
(specifically hcache) added to ext3 recently (in the 2.5 Linux kernels)
that speed up a lot of operations involving directories containing large
numbers of files.
> Should've used ReiserFS.
It might not have helped. Plus, you'd have to make sure you were using
a decent hash with reiserfs, otherwise you get hash collisions and
really nasty things start happening. I think the default hash algorithm
used nowadays is fairly sane and safe.
Cheers,
-mjg
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