[PLUG] avoiding "Argument list too long" error.
Daniel Hedlund
daniel at digitree.org
Mon Oct 9 23:10:05 UTC 2006
alan wrote:
> It is larger now, but still starts to slow down A LOT after about
> 100,000 files.
I believe this is why the '-O dir_index' option now exists in
mkfs.ext3/mke2fs and tune2fs:
"Use hashed b-trees to speed up lookups in large directories."
I'm not sure if this is implemented implicitly with ext3 or if it has to
be specified explicitly. Anyone know the answer to this?
Cheers,
Daniel Hedlund
daniel at digitree.org
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