Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> Has anyone done benchmarks on ext3 with the dir_index option? > > Anecdotally, I've observed dir_index speeding things up noticeably. > But not enough to make a really big difference. I would not use ext3 for directories with tens of thousands of entries. I have had a good experience with RH 2.4.20 patched with a XFS upgrade...but I cannot say much for today's 2.6.x kernels.