ext3 performance with hardware RAID5

Stephen C. Tweedie sct at redhat.com
Mon Aug 9 20:28:38 UTC 2004


Hi,

On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 09:26, Simon Oliver wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 14:56, Simon Oliver wrote:
> > > -O dir_index because this is supposed to help file listing 
> > performance 
> > > with Samba shares -R stride=8 because of the 32kb stripe size 
> > > (4kb*8=32kb)
> > > 
> > 
> > RHEL3 does not include HTREE though (the thing that uses dir_index)
> > 
> Does any know if the dir_index option will this be included in update 3?
> Also, any plans for XFS to be included?

There are no plans to include either of them for update 3.

--Stephen






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