On Jan 14, 2003 13:43 -0800, Parker Johnson wrote: > I am trying to determine the optimal filesystem for accessing large numbers > of files (25,000+) in a single directory. I have read that ext3fs uses a > sequential search algorithm and wanted to verify that this was still indeed > the case since this article was published a year ago. Not necessarily (depends on kernel/filesystem config). Please search for "htree" and/or enable the indexed directory feature in the 2.5 or patched 2.4 kernel. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
