* Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxx>: > In ext3/4 the top-level inodes are spread around the filesystem, on the > assumtion that something like /home or / is allocating trees of > unrelated subdirectories at the top level, but that files within those > subdirectories ARE related and should be allocated together. > > Depending on how many files are in your cache, the 256 * {small files} > is likely too big to fit into a single block group (32k inodes, 32k > blocks) so you may want to consider marking the first level of > subdirectories with the "TOPDIR" flag, that indicates the second-level > (256) subdirs should also be spread around the disk. How do I mark subdirectories with the "TOPDIR" flag? -- Ralf Hildebrandt GeschÃftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charità - UniversitÃtsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebrandt@xxxxxxxxxx | http://www.charite.de _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users