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. ---- 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. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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