Re: [BK PATCH] Add ext3 indexed directory (htree) support

Andreas Dilger (adilger@clusterfs.com)
Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:34:14 -0600

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

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Andreas Dilger
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/


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