Just Someone wrote: [snip] >> >> mke2fs -b $bsizeb -j -J size=400 -m 1 -O sparse_super \ >> -T largefile4 -E stride=$stride /dev/sdb >> >> Mounted with: mount -t ext3 -o data=journal,noatime /dev/sdb /mnt/test8 > > That's an interesting thing to try, though because of other things I > want, I prefer xfs or jfs anyway. I will have an extreme number of > schemas and files, which make high demands on the directory structure. > My tests showed me that ext3 doesn't cope with many files in > directories very well. With xfs and jfs I can create 500K files in one > directory in no time (about 250 seconds), with ext3 it start to crawl > after about 30K files. > It might seem that I'm selling ext3 or something :) but it's the linux filesystem I know best. If you want ext3 to perform with large directories, there is an mkfs option that enables directory hashing that you can try: -O dir_index. Regards, Magnus
