Marcus Rueckert wrote:

On 2005-07-19 11:14:03 +1000, vmstech wrote:


Quick answer:

ext3 with dir_index is fine.
this link has some nice speed comparision:
http://lwn.net/Articles/10904/

hope this helps

darix

p.s.: my personal preference is XFS.

Wow - that's interesting. I didn't know there was a btree option for Ext3. I thought only Reiser had that. If this actually works then it should perform like Reiser.

Not trying to get into a religious war about file systems but when you are looking at 100,000 files in a single directory you need a database type index to get any performance. That's why I'm a reiser fan for this purpose. If Ext3 has that then that's exciting. Of course you have to do whatever it takes to make that work because Ext3 didn't used to be that way.

Does XFS have a btree search in it?