On Apr 01, 2006 09:53 -0500, Huntress Gary B NPRI wrote: > Since I am writing, you can guess that is not the case. At 13K > directory entries, I am still seeing significantly slower connection > times even with the faster hardware and newer software. You need to run "e2fsck -f -D" when the filesystem is unmounted, to build htree indices for your large directories. > My questions are: 1) I don't know much about htree, but I recall > that it is supposed to help in this situation. How do I tell if it is > in use on my system. Is it a kernel module or is it compiled into ext3? "dumpe2fs -h <device> | grep -i features", it's part of stock 2.6 ext3. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users