Is this a bug or by design? Would there be a better filesystem to use for my situation? Matt D. -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Dilger [mailto:adilger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 7:43 PM To: Matt Dodson Cc: ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: EXT3 and large directories On Oct 04, 2006 16:33 -0500, Matt Dodson wrote: > I have an ext3 filesystem that has several directories and each > directory gets a large number of files inserted and then deleted over > time. The filesystem is basically used as a temp store before files are > processed. The issue is over time the directory scans get extremely slow > even if the directories are empty. I have noticed the directories can > range in size from 4k - 100M even when they are empty. Is there a way > to fix this without recreating the directories or bringing the > filesystem offline? No way to fix this w/o offline e2fsck -fD. ext3 doesn't shrink directories when deleting files. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
