Andreas Micklei schrieb: > Am Freitag, 28. September 2007 schrieb Bill Campbell: >> I would avoid reiserfs as I've seen far too many cases where >> there has been massive data loss with it. I've used xfs >> extensively on SuSE systems without problems, but haven't tried >> it on centos as it's not supported by the base systems. > > Works great using the XFS Module from CentOSPlus. We use it for the data > partition of our fileserver. > I just ran the script: #!/bin/tcsh -f @ number = 0 loop: @ number += 1 echo touch $number touch $number if ( $number < 100000 ) goto loop on a XFS partition of a CentOS 5 x86_64 system with kmod-xfs-0.4-1.2.6.18_8.1.8.el5 and xfsprogs-2.8.20-1.el5.centos installed. The script ran smoothly and took 46.238u 224.379s 4:37.93 97.3% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w to complete; all the files are there. So 100000 files in a single directory is not a problem for XFS. HTH, Kay