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/- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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