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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com