From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Eriberto <eriberto@eriberto.pro.br>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, ext3-users@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Ext3: changes to increase the speed?
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 10:56:46 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070401165646.GL5967@schatzie.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <euoi2m$4im$1@sea.gmane.org>
On Apr 01, 2007 12:11 -0300, Eriberto wrote:
> I tested ext3 performance recently and the results were very good. I
> used a script to create 40.000 files into ext3 partition and the speed
> was 4 seconds. One year before, the result was 55 seconds. Which the
> cause of this speed increase?
Likely the mke2fs is enabling the "dir_index" feature by default now. This
shows dramatic performance improvements with > 10000 files per directory.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-01 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-01 15:11 Ext3: changes to increase the speed? Eriberto
2007-04-01 16:56 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2007-04-02 2:51 ` coly
2007-04-02 10:22 ` Eriberto
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