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. >