Re: btrfs: 21 minutes to read 1.2M file directory

From: Andy Isaacson
Date: Wed Dec 22 2010 - 15:39:21 EST


On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 03:07:33AM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Andy Isaacson <adi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have a directory with 1.2M files in it, which makes readdir very slow
> > on btrfs with cold caches (although it's reasonably fast with hot caches
> > as in the first example below):
>
> Sounds like:
>
> Bug 21562 - btrfs is dead slow due to fragmentation
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21562

Hmmm, how do I look at the btree layout for a given inode?

btrfs-image for this filesystem is 1.7GiB .bz2, so I'm afraid it's not
reasonable to publish it.

-andy
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