-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm trying to install the htree indexed directory patch to my RedHat kernel-source-2.4.18-10, but it seems that doesn't go. First I tried the ext3 patch (I have sent some emails to this list telling the problems I had with it). Now I have just test the ext2 patch. I get it from: http://people.nl.linux.org/~phillips/htree/htree-2.4.18-2 and applied to my kernel source this way: # cd /usr/src/linux # cat htree-2.4.18-2 | patch -p1 All the compilation process goes well, I can reboot the computer with the new kernel, make a new ext2 file system over a free partition and mount it with the -o index option: # mount /dev/hda7 /internet -o index # mount /dev/hda7 on /internet type ext2 (rw,index) But when I make the test with the script I included at the end of this email, the results are not the expected from an indexed directory. The creation time of 2500 files for an (in theory) indexed directory, are nearly the same for the non indexed directory: INDEXED DIRECTORY: # mkdir /internet/test # cd /internet/test # ./mk_file_test.sh 2500 Thu Sep 5 17:40:19 CEST 2002 real 0m15.532s user 0m5.970s sys 0m9.090s Thu Sep 5 17:40:34 CEST 2002 NON INDEXED DIRECTORY: # mkdir /root/test # cd /root/test # ./mk_file_test.sh 2500 Thu Sep 5 17:22:40 CEST 2002 real 0m15.130s user 0m5.740s sys 0m9.270s Thu Sep 5 17:22:55 CEST 2002 The size of both directories after run the test script are: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 49152 Sep 5 17:40 /internet/test drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 32768 Sep 5 17:44 /root/test The (in theory) indexed directory is greater than the non indexed one. This is normal, but why the nearly equal performance ? The creation time for the indexed directory must be lot of times more quick. Has anyone tested this patch succesfully ? Is the patch still incomplete ? Am I doing something wrong ? May someone help me ? Please, help me. I believe that the htree indexed directory is a very very great improvement for the ext2/ext3 file system that must become a standard as soon as possible. Greetings. - --- Carles Xavier Munyoz Baldó carles@descom.es Descom Consulting Telf: +34 965861024 Fax: +34 965861024 http://www.descom.es/ - --- [...] if [ -z "$1" ]; then echo "USAGE $0 last_directory_number" exit 0 fi N=0 date time while [ 1 ]; do > $N if [ "$N" = "$1" ]; then break fi N=`expr $N + 1` done echo date [...] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBPXd/UzvYAf7VZNaaEQJJXwCfY7RG80eFwuHX6LAygXnEQY4AOiEAn3qg kXTwP7uwEAJG7buHHTXeSR+D =ZqWs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
