Jeff Breidenbach wrote: >Individual directories contain up to about 150,000 files. If I run ls >-U on all directories, it completes in a reasonably amount of time (I >forget how much, but I think it is well under an hour). Reiserfs is >supposed to be good at this sort of thing. If I were to stat each >file, then it's a different story. > > Have you tried / can you try XFS. IIRC it is very good indeed at this kind of scenario (used to be an *excellent* nntp server fs) David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html