On Sep 24, 2002 10:12 +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > It should work on existing filesystems, but not on existing > > directories larger than a block. If a directory already has a > > sequential multiblock layout, then the htree code can't yet go in and > > create a new index for the whole directory. > > Is this something that's on the hit-list to fix, or should I anticipate > needing to manually rebuild my various large directories to take > advantage of the performance boost? It is not something that the kernel will do directly. If you enable the dir_index feature in the superblock, e2fsck will re-index all of the directories in the filesystem (or at least that is my understanding, I have never tested this myself but it should be in e2fsck 1.28). Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
