[CentOS] Calling All FS Fanatics

Tue Oct 3 21:23:43 UTC 2006
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 13:49 -0700, Kirk Bocek 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.

 
> Where do you find this option, Les? I don't see it in the man page for
> mount.

It's a filesystem option, not a mount option.  Look at man tune2fs.

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 Les Mikesell
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