<snip> > Note that I only put 100 files in each directory - if I put 1000 files > in one directory, performance would degrade (more significantly when the > number is, say, 10000). </snip> this is not, however, the fact with other filesystems such as JFS, XFS and ReiserFS -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester ProntoTV AS - http://www.pronto.tv/ Tel: +47 9801 3356 Computers are like air conditioners. They stop working when you open Windows. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html