* Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@xxxxxxxxxx>: > * 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? Found it: chattr +T _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users