>> Maybe on disk. But somehow at up to 50000 files no slowdown is
>> noticeable when adding or looking up files. This is one of the areas
>> where I saw big difference in performance between FreeBSD UFS and
>> Linux ext2fs.
AC> Interesting. Is this compared to Linux 2.0 or 2.1 - ie is it
AC> smart caching or have they got something clever added on the
AC> UFS directory structure we should look at
I've been running both lately, I'm not sure anymore. But I think it
was 2.0. In general I noticed quite some speedups when going from 2.0
to 2.1. I'll do some more benchmarks later w.r.t. creating & deleting
huge number of files and doing lookups in such large directories.
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