Where do you find this option, Les? I don't see it in the man page for mount.
Kirk Bocek
Les Mikesell wrote:
Has anyone done benchmarks on ext3 with the dir_index option? I've used reiserfs in the past for better performance in creating and deleting many files on filesystems that handle maildir directories or for backuppc with it's millions of hardlinks, but perhaps ext3 would works as well with the indexes enabled.