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Re: svn to git, N-squared?

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Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 12, 2006, 18:06 UTC
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On 6/12/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> Having that many files in a single directory (or two) is a total disaster.
> That said, it works well enough if you don't create new files very often
> (and _preferably_ don't look them up either, although that is effectively
> helped by indexing). I _suspect_ that

Posted to the svn list, they said that 220K files is normal. They told me to turn on the ext2 dir_index option. Cheking my system I see that none of partitions have it turned on so it must not be the default for FC5.

I have to unmount the drive to convert existing directories. I can trying doing the file move trick while the process is running since new directories will use it.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
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