Has anyone ever installed Red Hat using ReiserFS for root file systems. I've
heard about ReiserFS and would like to try it. Does anyone know HOWTO? It is
faster than EXT2FS in directory lookup?
Any ideas about other new file systems?
Thanks!
Min
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Soros" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: Speed problem in scanning a directory with 500,000 files
> Have you tried ReiserFS ? Also, how much memory do you have ? Maybe for
> a bit of insight read this article,
>
> http://www.lwn.net/2001/0426/a/dp-delete.php3
>
> On 24 Apr 2001 10:05:43 -0400, Min Yuan wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > We have a directory on Redhat 6.2 with 500, 000 files. In our code we
open and read the directory and for each entry in the directory we use
lstat() to check for some information. The whole scanning takes more than
eight hours which is terribly long.
> >
> > Is there any way we could reduce this length of time? If the answer is
NO, then is there any official documents about it and where can we find it?
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Min Yuan
> > VytalNet, Inc.
> > (905)844-4453 Ext. 241
>
>
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