Hi, I have an ext3 filesystem. When I "cp -lr" a big tree there, it turns out that the "mkdir" calls take the bulk of the time. IIRC there are 325000 directories (and 4 million files). Each mkdir call takes about 50ms (*), so that accounts for about 4.5 hours of the running time. Would ext4 perform significantly better? Roger. (*) I forgot about this Email while it was still in my editor. Now a day layter the mkdir calls all take around 17ms, and things run about 3x faster. On the other hand it's been running for over 5 hours. And yesterday I've seen a streak of >100ms mkdir calls... So apparently it depends on "something".... -- ** R.E.Wolff@xxxxxxxxxxxx ** http://www.BitWizard.nl/ ** +31-15-2600998 ** ** Delftechpark 26 2628 XH Delft, The Netherlands. KVK: 27239233 ** *-- BitWizard writes Linux device drivers for any device you may have! --* Q: It doesn't work. A: Look buddy, doesn't work is an ambiguous statement. Does it sit on the couch all day? Is it unemployed? Please be specific! Define 'it' and what it isn't doing. --------- Adapted from lxrbot FAQ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
