Re: Directory size problem?

Nico Kadel-Garcia [nkadel@comcast.net] wrote:
>Alex Kiesel wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 16:24 -0500, Hal Mahaffey wrote:
> >> Has anyone noticed performance problems with repositories with
> >> 10,000+ revisions?
> >
> > We've got a repository with ~ 40000 revisions, no performance problems
> > due to this number.
> >
> > It was running BDB and was changed recently to FSFS, without any
> > noticeable difference.
> >
> >> What "older native filesystems" have this problem? We were using
> >> Veritas v3.5 on EMC Symms and noticed the problem. Are there any
> >> recommended filesystems?
> >
> > I can only guess that ext2 was meant.
> >
> > Regards,
> > -Alex
>
> ext3 had the same problem, until the 2.6 kernel introduced htrees.

I suspect any of the standard System V Unixs might have same problem too.
Solaris with it's DNLC has no problem with very large directories though.
(I run our Subversion repositories on Solaris x86 10.)

-- 
Andrew Gabriel
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