| sean finney on 3 Sep 2009 03:48:15 -0700 |
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On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 11:45:11PM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote: > need to consider performance. Many file systems do a linear search > through the directory table to find subdirectories. My experience > with ext3 is that performance slows down considerably long before you > reach whatever the hard limit is. you probably want to make sure dir_index is enabled on the filesystem, though i can't make any claims about whether or not removes the performance problems in part or entirely. > While I've never used it, I hear that reiserfs is supposed to be very > good at storing large numbers of subdirs efficiently. yes, it has "killer" performance. but more seriously, after the 2nd or 3rd time you completely lose your entire filesystem during a fsck, you'll probably reconsider using it in future installs. sean Attachment:
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