Max Files Per Directory

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 12:30:50AM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
> On a test (loopback) FS, with dir_index I get results similar to before,
> while without dir_index, file creation gets very slow fast (100000 files:
> 1010 s vs. 34 s), while listing is about the same, and deleting is faster.
> 
> So indexing is (and was) being used, but it doesn't help as much as I would
> expect, and it is still better to have only a moderate number of files per
> directory.

Thanks for doing the experiments -- interesting and good to know. Hmmm;
wanna try with ReiserFS? :)

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