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[Iain Pople]

We are using Solaris UFS.

On 28/07/2005, at 2:55 PM, ross at jose.lug.udel.edu wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 01:55:36PM +1000, Iain Pople wrote:
>
>> The concern is that on a unix filesystem it is very slow to access
>> directories with thousands of entries.
>>
>
> While I can't address your question directly, I can say that this
> isn't an issue.  Just use ReiserFS or set your ext2/3 filesystems to
> use dir_index.  Either one will give you hashed directory lookups and
> resolve this performance issue.

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Iain Pople
Systems Programmer
University of Melbourne