The directory only has about 10 or so files in it - htree won't help in that situation will it? Thanks for the heads up with the new patches :) On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 21:33, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 12:35:25PM +1000, Adam Cassar wrote: > > > > I have experienced a recent performance issue with an ext2 filesystem. > > > > Essentially I have had several files that get overwritten on average > > once per day. > > > > This has been happening for about a hear when the program accessing and > > reading those files started from several milliseconds to 15-20 seconds > > to open and read the file. > > > > Moving the directory to a new name and copying the contents solved the > > issue. > > How big is the directory? Sounds like you need the htree patches. > These are included in the 2.5 kernel, or they can be applied to the > 2.4 tree. Patches against 2.4.21rc8 can be found here: > > http://thunk.org/tytso/linux/extfs-2.4-update/extfs-update-2.4.21rc8 > > After you have an htree-enabled kernel, you need to actually enable > the htree feature by running the following commands on the unmounted > filesystem: > > tune2fs -O dir_index /dev/hdXXX > e2fsck -fD /dev/hdXXXX > > I strongly suggest that you upgrade your e2fsprogs to at least versoin > 1.30 (1.33 is the latest release of e2fsprogs) before trying to use > the htree ext2/3 feature. > > - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
