"find" too slow on FC1's reiserfs file system

[jludwig]

On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 16:59, Guolin Cheng wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  “find “ runs far too slow on my reiserfs file system, on the file
> system I have only 3.4 Million small files under 2500 directories. An
> ext3 file system with the same contents tooks about 5 minutes for the
> command “find /demoFileSystem –type f “ to finish, while the same
> command took forever on a reiserfs file system.
> 
>  It is against our general ideas of reiserfs file system.. I don’t
> know what’s going on.
> 
>  The reiserfs file system is created with default parameters.
> “mkreiserfs –label demoFS /dev/hdd1 “,  the entry in fstab is:
> 
> “/dev/hdc1               /demoFS                reiserfs
> defaults,nosuid 1 2”, everything seems normal. When the machines
> reboots, it mounts reiserfs with no problems.
> 
>  My base Linux system is FC1, my kernel is a vanilla 2.4.26 kernel,
> with reiserfs built as a module.
> 
>  Any ideas?
> 
>  Thanks a lot.
> 
>  --Guolin Cheng
> 
> 
> 
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Try slocate (if this finds nothing run updatedb as SU).
(Slocate uses a database to locate files insted of actually scanning the
directories (hard drive).
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jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>