From: Dennis Kibbe > On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 12:57 -0700, Nathan England wrote: >> I have a hard drive that I use for storing and working with large tar >> archives. It seems that after a few months of working with these >> archives, unpacking, making modifications and tarring them back up, >> the whole system will get very slow, but particularly this drive. >> Currently, this is an ext4 partition. I do not believe this ever >> happened with an ext3 partition > Are all the files in one directory? I made the mistake of putting a few > thousand image files in one directory. It slowed access to a crawl. This seems kind of odd. Back from 2002..2006, we had an ext3 partition with many directories, and many of those directories had well over 10,000 files in them. Most of these files were less than 100K. Disk I/O was quite fast, and we never really had any problems at all with having so many files in one directory, even with a few really huge dirs that had over 400,000 files in them. Did they mess something up with ext4? Also, isn't there a mailing list for ext4 somewhere? I'm sure they'd love to hear about this here problem if it can be reproduced.... -- Matt G / Dances With Crows The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss