Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:28:50 +0000 From: Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Big directory size Message-ID: <20030113172849.GD7420@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0301131434550.15910-100000@apache.metrocom.ru> References: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0301131434550.15910-100000@apache.metrocom.ru>
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On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 02:45:16PM +0300, Varshavchick Alexander wrote: > Hello, > > I had a directory with a lot of files (about 100 000), and naturally, the > size of the directory entry itself was big enough (about 1M). Now I've > split all these files to different subdirectories, to increase the system > performance. The major directory entry size didn't change, however such a > big value is not needed now. > > Now here is a question - can an unnessesary big value of a directory > entry size harm the system performance? I guess it does not, is it > correct? This is just speculation, but I would imagine the key factor affecting performance would be more to do with the number of inode entries in a given directory, than with the size of the directory's contents. However, I am no file system expert, this is just my gut feeling... -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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