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On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Mark Lehrer wrote: > I am not a filesystem expert, but I would like to understand what > makes e2fs slow on my 4.5 gig partition; and if someone is working on > performance and would like some help, please holler. Some slow > operations, kernel 2.0.34: > > 1) removing 500 megs of files took 30 seconds. This will be just as slow on a 600M filesystem... If there are a lot of files, it's going to take a rather long time to remove them. (Just try this under Windows:) > 2) fsck of course. Fsck takes extremely long because it has to cross-reference all the inode and directory data... I believe someone is working on a journaling extension, but don't hold your breath... (unless you like turning blue) Rik. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Linux memory management tour guide. H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl | | Scouting Vries cubscout leader. http://www.phys.uu.nl/~riel/ | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu | ||||||||||||
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