On Apr 04, 2003 13:38 +0100, Alex Bligh wrote: > 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, htree will benefit you greatly. The system will be almost unusable without it. > 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? Correct. Htree is not in any 2.4 kernels yet. > If I am right, where is the best place to get a consolidated ext3 > patch which is suitable for a production environment? I believe Ted has up-to-date patches for htree: http://thunk.org/tytso/linux/extfs-2.4-update/broken-out-2.4.21pre5-2 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
