All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Eriberto <eriberto@eriberto.pro.br>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, ext3-users@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Ext3: changes to increase the speed?
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 10:56:46 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070401165646.GL5967@schatzie.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <euoi2m$4im$1@sea.gmane.org>

On Apr 01, 2007  12:11 -0300, Eriberto wrote:
> I tested ext3 performance recently and the results were very good. I
> used a script to create 40.000 files into ext3 partition and the speed
> was 4 seconds. One year before, the result was 55 seconds. Which the
> cause of this speed increase?

Likely the mke2fs is enabling the "dir_index" feature by default now.  This
shows dramatic performance improvements with > 10000 files per directory.

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


  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-01 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-01 15:11 Ext3: changes to increase the speed? Eriberto
2007-04-01 16:56 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2007-04-02  2:51 ` coly
2007-04-02 10:22   ` Eriberto

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20070401165646.GL5967@schatzie.adilger.int \
    --to=adilger@clusterfs.com \
    --cc=eriberto@eriberto.pro.br \
    --cc=ext3-users@redhat.com \
    --cc=linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.