On Saturday 02 August 2003 14.12, vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua
wrote:
> You say that L2 is used as a max number of objects per level2
> directory.
Yes.
> Does this mean that L2 parameter specify both number of level2 dirs
> and max number of objects per level2 directory? Or what?
Yes.
The purpose of the L2 parameter is to control the number of entries
per directory to avoid excessive CPU usage in scanning directories.
Most filesystems stores directories linearly, causing poor open/close
performance on large directories.
To small directories on the other hand wastes memory on OS level
directory caching.
Regards
Henrik
Received on Sat Aug 02 2003 - 06:56:26 MDT
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