On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
this is exactly my problem I believe. I have a 4TB RAID SAN and the problem directory holds well over a million small files. Even a directory under that directory, du takes almost 40 minutes to total up 74GB.The directory code in ext2 and ext3 isn't designed for a million files in a single directory. Its a bizzare corner case. If you split the files into subdirectories (eg by a hash) you'll get far saner numbers
I think you meant "coroner case". ]:>
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