[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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