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

Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Wed, 25 Sep 2002 21:41:01 +0100

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 04:03:44PM -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.

Just curious.. what measurable overhead (if any) is there of indexing
dirs with smaller numbers of files vs non-indexed ?
If so, where would be the break-even point ?

Dave

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