Ext3: changes to increase the speed?

[Eriberto <eriberto eriberto pro br>]

Hello all,

I tested ext3 performance recently and the results were very good. I
used a script to create 40.000 files into ext3 partition and the speed
was 4 seconds. One year before, the result was 55 seconds. Which the
cause of this speed increase?

PS: I used Debian Etch.

Thanks in advance!

Eriberto - Brazil