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Date:      Thu, 02 Jan 2003 09:55:30 -0500
From:      "MikeM" <myraq@mgm51.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Lots of files in a directory
Message-ID:  <200301020955300340.09F341B4@home.24cl.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030102141322.GH348@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
References:  <200301020901270548.09C1C68B@sentry.24cl.com> <20030102141322.GH348@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>

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On 1/2/03 at 3:13 PM Roman Neuhauser wrote:

|# MyRaQ@mgm51.com / 2003-01-02 09:01:27 -0500:
|> I'm considering setting up my server as a mirror site for the freedb.org
|> lookup database.  Unfortunately, I've seem to have run into a stumbling
|> block.  The server app requires over 250,000 files in a single
directory.
|> Each file is about 2k in size.
|> 
|> It was a surprise to me (but probably not to those on this list) that
the
|> file system does not handle that many files in an expeditious manner
(I'm
|> being kind here). 
|> 
|
|    would this help? (I don't know if this was available in 4.5, look in
|    your /sys/i386/conf/LINT)
|
|    roman@freepuppy ~ 1003:0 > grep -B2 DIRHASH /sys/i386/conf/LINT
|    # Directory hashing improves the speed of operations on very large
|    # directories at the expense of some memory.
|    options         UFS_DIRHASH
 =============


Thanks for the quick reply.

I already have UFS_DIRHASH specified in my kernel config file.  :-(




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