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Date:      Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:51:30 +0300 (MSK)
From:      Varshavchick Alexander <alex@metrocom.ru>
To:        Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Big directory size
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.33.0301141150390.14998-100000@apache.metrocom.ru>
In-Reply-To: <44bs2kpwah.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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Yes, the kernel has a dirhash option. Thank you for the answer.

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Alexander Varshavchick, Metrocom Joint Stock Company
Phone: (812)118-3322, 118-3115(fax)

On 13 Jan 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

> 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
>
> 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.
>
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