Hi, On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 12:02, glen wrote: > Files spread over 100 directories: > > Create : 1764, N/A, 1078 > Remove : 611, N/A, 1310 > > Ok so results are not that great - better to use more directories. > > Files spread over 1000 directories: > > Create: 409, 305, 284 > Remove: 138, 96, 141 Why use more directories? That just means that you spend more time updating more metadata for more directories. The point of htree is to let the fs do this work itself, as efficiently as possible: if you try with _1_ directory, you should see the best benefit from htree. However, the performance still doesn't look that good, especially on the 100 dirs case (10,000 files per dir) --- are you sure you set the dir-index flag on the filesystem to enable htree operation? Cheers, Stephen _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
