Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Date | Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:34:14 -0600 | Subject | Re: [BK PATCH] Add ext3 indexed directory (htree) support |
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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 -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
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