From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o873UswU216741 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 22:30:55 -0500 Received: from mail.internode.on.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 0207517B5A81 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 20:31:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.internode.on.net (bld-mail15.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.100]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id Uk6MSoBXNFCIqvcu for ; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:31:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 13:31:34 +1000 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: LWN.net article: creating 1 billion files -> XFS looses Message-ID: <20100907033134.GF7362@dastard> References: <201008191312.49346@zmi.at> <20100906154254.5542426c@harpe.intellique.com> <20100906220410.GD7362@dastard> <201009070058.40849@zmi.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201009070058.40849@zmi.at> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Michael Monnerie Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 12:58:40AM +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote: > On Dienstag, 7. September 2010 Dave Chinner wrote: > > # mkfs.xfs -d size=64k > > > > Will speed up large directory operations by at least an order of > > magnitude. > > I've read the man page for mkfs.xfs, but I couldn't find out if using > mkfs -d su=64k,sw=2 Sorry, I screwed that up, it should have read: # mkfs.xfs -n size=64k (-n = naming = directories. -d = data != directories) Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs