Max Files Per Directory

[Mike McMullen]

>From: "Tony Nelson" <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com>
>
At 11:23 AM -0400 7/17/05, Matthew Miller wrote:
>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? :)
>
>No, not yet, thanks anyway. 8)

Since Tony posted the script he used to do the testing maybe some people who
are using filesystems other than ext 3 could give it a whirl and post their findings.

I would volunteer to compile the findings and post a summary. ;-)

Mike