On 6/12/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Having that many files in a single directory (or two) is a total disaster. That said, it works well enough if you don't create new files very often (and _preferably_ don't look them up either, although that is effectively helped by indexing). I _suspect_ that
Posted to the svn list, they said that 220K files is normal. They told me to turn on the ext2 dir_index option. Cheking my system I see that none of partitions have it turned on so it must not be the default for FC5. I have to unmount the drive to convert existing directories. I can trying doing the file move trick while the process is running since new directories will use it. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html