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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>, Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ext3 vs Reiserfs benchmarks
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 18:12:50 +0200
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On Monday 15 July 2002 18:03, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Jul 15, 2002  13:02 +0100, Sam Vilain wrote:
> >    "Yes, we know that there is no directory hashing in ext2/3.  You'll
> > have to find another solution to the problem, I'm afraid.  Why not ease
> > the burden on the filesystem by breaking up the task for it, and giving
> > it to it in small pieces.  That way it's much less likely to choke."
> 
> Amusingly, there IS directory hashing available for ext2 and ext3, and
> it is just as fast as reiserfs hashed directories.  See:
> 
>    http://people.nl.linux.org/~phillips/htree/paper/htree.html

Faster, last time I checked.  I really must test against XFS and JFS at
some point.

-- 
Daniel
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