LWN.net article: creating 1 billion files -> XFS looses

[Dave Chinner]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 12:58:40AM +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote:
> On Dienstag, 7. September 2010 Dave Chinner wrote:
> > # mkfs.xfs -d size=64k
> > 
> > Will speed up large directory operations by at least an order of
> > magnitude.
>  
> I've read the man page for mkfs.xfs, but I couldn't find out if using 
> mkfs -d su=64k,sw=2

Sorry, I screwed that up, it should have read:

# mkfs.xfs -n size=64k

(-n = naming = directories. -d = data != directories)

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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