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From: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
Subject: Re: split RAID1 during backups?
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:18:27 +0100
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Jeff Breidenbach wrote:

>Individual directories contain up to about 150,000 files. If I run ls
>-U on all directories, it completes in a reasonably amount of time (I
>forget how much, but I think it is well under an hour). Reiserfs is
>supposed to be good at this sort of thing. If I were to stat each
>file, then it's a different story.
>  
>
Have you tried / can you try XFS.

IIRC it is very good indeed at this kind of scenario (used to be an
*excellent* nntp server fs)

David