On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 21:58 +0200, Marten Lehmann wrote: > > I think this is because reiserfs is better handling a lot of small > > files, while ext3 performes better with a few big files. > > Is it possible that you are working with a fairly old linux > distribution? Today's ext3 shouldn't have these issues any longer, > otherwise Redhat wouldn't ship it as the only supported filesystem with > its Enterprise distributions. A modern 2.6er ext3 has indexes and > b-trees on top of the common ext3-layer, so even big directories > shouldn't be a problem any more.
How big? ext3 STILL only supports 32000 directories within a directory. That gets to be quite a problem on large installs. John -- John Madden Sr. UNIX Systems Engineer Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
