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SubjectRe: [BK PATCH] Add ext3 indexed directory (htree) support
On Sep 25, 2002  16:03 -0400, tytso@mit.edu wrote:
> This patch significantly increases the speed of using large directories.
> Creating 100,000 files in a single directory took 38 minutes without
> directory indexing... and 11 seconds with the directory indexing turned on.

Not mentioned, but very important to note is that the dir indexing code
is 100% compatible with older kernels (even back to 1.2 days) for both
read and write.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/

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