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benchmarking ext3 in Linux 2.6.0 ?



According to this /. post http://tinyurl.com/2ruw5

>EXT3:
># The ext3 filesystem has gained indexed directory support, which offers 
>considerable performance gains when used on filesystems with directories 
>containing large numbers of files.
># In order to use the htree feature, you need at least version 1.32 of 
>e2fsprogs.
># Existing filesystems can be converted using the command
>tune2fs -O dir_index /dev/hdXXX
># The latest e2fsprogs can be found at 
>http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs

This might be interesting for those of you with very large Maildir folders.

What other filesystems have good support for accessing files in large
directories?

me