Alex Hunsaker wrote:
>
>> FYI, on my 8.2.13 system, the test created 30001 files which were all
>> deleted during the commit. Â On my 8.4.0 system, the test created 60001
>> files, of which 30000 were deleted at commit and 30001 disappeared
>> later (presumably during a checkpoint?).
>
> Smells like fsm?
Yes, that was it. 30000 of the filenames ended with "_fsm".
> With double the number of files maybe something
> simple like turning on dir_index if you are ext3 will help?
Thanks for the tip. Doing "tune2fs -O +dir_index" didn't seem to make
a difference, which is kinda expected for an existing directory. When
I get a chance, I'll try to recreate the filesystem.
-- todd