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Re: [tlug] Website Question(s)



On 2005/08/02 17:16, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

 > much higher than file access time).  Modern file systems (Reiser, even
 > recent versions of ext2) use hash tables which makes the lookup
 > essentially constant time.

And specifically for ext2/3, check out 'tune2fs -O dir_index' (and then 
e2fsck to convert existing directories).  At least on my systems, it is 
not enabled by default.



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