On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 14:37 -0500, Rashkae wrote: > I just came across your message to a mailing list here: [message concerned it taking hours to go through directories in a mail spool on ext3] > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/2007-October/msg00019.html > > This might be a problem you resolved for yourself a long time ago, but I > thought you might be interested to know that Theodore's spd_readdir > library works great with star (even though I also cannot get it to work > with tar or even du). That's interesting. Since I couldn't get it to work with tar, got no response, and wasn't sure how or if to get it to work with the daemon to that really needed it, I haven't made and progress. I wonder what determines whether the library helps or hurts. > > star with spd_readdir is what I use to back up maildir spools, and > something I consider absolutely necessary for any such storage on ext3 > or reiserfs filesystems. I hadn't noticed this was an issue with reiser. I also just noticed that e2fsck has an option, -D, to optimize directories. The man page says this will reindex directories. Does anyone know if that could help? Ross _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
