On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 11:08, Murty Rompalli wrote: > > Hi > As a general rule, if you have several files distributed under multiple > directories then you have better performance (compared to a case where > several files under one directory). Really you should be using reiserfs for directories with over 100 files. Ext2/3 starts getting really slow. >Additionally, if you use ext3 you can > expect better performance especially if a lot of files are going to be > read and written to. Just make sure you are using latest kernel because > older kernels have some issues with ext3 and/or quotas. > Hope this helps, > > Murty > > On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Brendon Caligari wrote: > > > Having seemingly managed to get the onboard 20276 to work, > > I was wondering what (kernel?) 'tuning' might be necessary to support > > heavy numbers of files on partitions. > > > > /dev/ataraid/d0p2 (/home) is to house a bundle of 'nasty user' > > Maildirs and I am expecting some maximum of 500,000 files > > to be resident. > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > Brendon > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list >
