Re: Large single raid and XFS or two small ones and EXT3?

Andreas Dilger
2006-06-23T16:06:02Z

On Jun 23, 2006 17:01 +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
> Chris Allen wrote:
> > Francois Barre wrote:
> > > 2006/6/23, PFC <lists@peufeu.com>:
> > >> - ext3 is slow if you have many files in one directory, but
> > >> has more mature tools (resize, recovery etc)

Please use "mke2fs -O dir_index" or "tune2fs -O dir_index" when testing
ext3 performance for many-files-in-dir. This is now the default in
e2fsprogs-1.39 and later.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.