Re: Large number of files in a directory

From: Wesley Joyce (wjoyce@UVI.EDU)
Date: Sat Mar 27 2004 - 15:44:33 EST


Create a JFS2 based file system.

also try defragfs

At 03:00 PM 3/27/2004, you wrote:

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> We are experiencing a performance degradation when we have to manage a
> directory with a large number of files (say, 20,000). I suppose this
> happens because the file system has to make a linear lookup into the
> directory to find a file name.
>
> Is there anything to tune to improve performance?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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