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ZFS uses an Extensible hash table dor its directory while most of the other filesystems use a b-tree. I'm no ZFS expert, but perhaps this method degrades for l

by scumola 17y ago

ZFS uses an Extensible hash table dor its directory while most of the other filesystems use a b-tree. I'm no ZFS expert, but perhaps this method degrades for larger directories? I'm not trying to be a troll, I'm trying to fix the performance problem.

moe 17y ago
mkdir /tmp/foo cd /tmp/foo for ((i=0;$i<6000;i++)); do touch $i; done time ls >/dev/null real 0m0.012s user 0m0.012s sys 0m0.000s Perhaps try ext3?
- scumola 17y ago
  Those are obviously in cache.