On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 17:01, Michael Harris wrote: > Compressing the directory entry with > mkdir new > cp old/* new/ > rm -rf old > mv old new > definitely improves things, but generally when there gets to be more than 200k files > we have to roll over to a new directory to keep things moving. The process above will rebuild the directory *and* copy all the content - with possible effects on the disk layout for entries within that directory etc. Whats the effect of instead doing:- mkdir new mv old/* new/ rmdir new which will sort/compress the directory but not affect the content (or alternatively you could ln all the files into place - which might be less confusing for anything looking at those directories at the time). Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham@InTechnology.co.uk ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
