Re^2: Performance Trap - Opening/Closing Files Inside a Loop

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We found that ext3 with the 2.4.x Linux Kernel was reasonably happy with 10,000 files in a directory but obviously unhappy with 1 million. By reasonably happy I mean other bottlenecks dominated affairs. I would be interested if anyone has done a study on the relation of file numbers per dir vs access time for different file systems that it a little more precise.

cheers

tachyon

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Re^3: Performance Trap - Opening/Closing Files Inside a Loop by meredith (Friar) on Dec 10, 2004 at 21:31 UTC
Out of curiousity, did you test with the '`dir_index`' feature flag set? It allows the filesystem to use hashed b-trees for lookups in large directories. `mhoward - at - hattmoward.org`	[reply]

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