On Monday 23 September 2002 01:33, Theodore Ts'o wrote: Hi Theodore, > These times don't look right. Are you sure you created the filesystem > was using directorying indexing turned on? With it turned on, > creating 100,000 files should take 10-20 seconds depending on the > speed of your system and hard disks. hmm, I thought this will also work if I just mount with index option on my already working filesystems. But I was wrong, obviously. Can you tell me why this only works with new created filesystems with index and not with already created filesystems just using the index mount option? > Here's the test script I use for testing directory indexing: thnx alot. > On my system, creating the files in the test3 directory takes 11.408 > seconds real time, with 6.221 seconds of system time with the > directory indexing. If I comment out the debugfs line which activates > the "dir_index" filesystem feature flag, then directory indexing is > turned off, and the script takes 38:07 minutes of real time, with > 38:05 of it being system time. jep, exakt. with index, your script took 15 seconds! FAAST :) -- Kind regards Marc-Christian Petersen http://sourceforge.net/projects/wolk PGP/GnuPG Key: 1024D/569DE2E3DB441A16 Fingerprint: 3469 0CF8 CA7E 0042 7824 080A 569D E2E3 DB44 1A16 Key available at www.keyserver.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users