Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Date | Mon, 15 Jul 2002 10:03:57 -0600 | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ext3 vs Reiserfs benchmarks |
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On Jul 15, 2002 13:02 +0100, Sam Vilain wrote: > "Yes, we know that there is no directory hashing in ext2/3. You'll > have to find another solution to the problem, I'm afraid. Why not ease > the burden on the filesystem by breaking up the task for it, and giving > it to it in small pieces. That way it's much less likely to choke."
Amusingly, there IS directory hashing available for ext2 and ext3, and it is just as fast as reiserfs hashed directories. See:
http://people.nl.linux.org/~phillips/htree/paper/htree.html
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
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