On Dec 04, 2007 10:52 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > 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. Maybe it depends if the app is using normal readdir() calls, or is maybe implementing the directory traversal itself? > 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? That will compress empty space from directories and rebuild the hash table for directories that are not indexed (e.g. older dirs created before DIR_INDEX feature was enabled in fs). It will keep them in hash order so it won't help this issue. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
