I have a (stock) 2.4.20 build (*not* -ac), and I'm trying to work with large ext3 directories. By large, I mean 160,000 files per directory. (Yes, I know it would be better in nested directories but such is life).
I feel htree would benefit me. Having upgraded from an earlier version of 2.4, I don't see any change, and close reading of the 2.4 changelog suggests that htree isn't in there - only a patch to prevent non-htree builds reporting corruption after being written to by an htree build. Did I read this right?
If I am right, where is the best place to get a consolidated ext3 patch which is suitable for a production environment?
And once I have htree in the kernel, does it 'automatically' produce the benefits on existing directories, or do I need to go through some on-disk process to get the directory held 'in htree form'?
Alex Bligh
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