On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 03:09:17PM +0200, Norbert Kiesel wrote: > Hi, > > I enabled dir_index on a filesystem and dumpe2fs -h also reports this. > My understanding is that this will be used for newly created directories > and that old directories can be indexed using "fsck.ext2 -D". More properly, directories that grow beyond a single filesystem block (normally 4k) will be indexed once dir_index is enabled. (A directory with a single block is identical to a tree with a single leaf block and nothing else.) And to index directories greater than one block, you need to use the e2fsck/fsck.ext2 options "-fD". > Two questions: > - Is there a way to tell is a given directory is indexed or not? Use the lsattr command and see if the 'I' flag is set, i.e: % lsattr -d ~/isync/mit/cur --------------I-- /home/tytso/isync/mit/cur > - Is there a better way to index the root fs than to boot off a live > CD? Most of the time the root directory is less than a single block, which means it wouldn't be indexed in any case, and if it grew beyond 1 block, it would automatically be indexed. - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
