Date: 13 Jan 2003 16:36:06 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Big directory size Message-ID: <44bs2kpwah.fsf@be-well.ilk.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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Varshavchick Alexander <alex@metrocom.ru> writes: > 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? If the files were created without the dirhash code in your kernel, it certainly could. It still could with the dirhash, but shouldn't be noticeable at the 100,000-file level. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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