On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 07:10:30PM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote: > I had sort of assumed this wouldn't be a problem after htree was > incorporated as far speed, as opposed to size is concerned - and speed was > the original poster's problem, not size on disk. Does that imply there is > still some linear searching going on, or that htree is not "enough" to > speed up the searches. The current implementation of htree doesn't shrink leaf nodes when they are empty, so if you create a really, really big directory, and then delete all of the files, the leaf nodes remain in the htree, empty. So htree will speed up the lookup of *specific* files, but it won't speed up readdir() scanning a large, empty directory. - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
